Cancer pulmonaire non à petites cellules chez les patients non fumeurs au CHU de Liège : étude rétrospective entre début 2017 et fin 2018. ; Non small cell lung carcinoma in never-smokers at the Liege University Hospital : a retrospective cohort study, 2017-2018.

editorial reviewed ; Lung cancer is the third most common cancer in Belgium in 2017 and remains the leading cause of cancer death worldwide. There is no longer any doubt that the main cause of lung cancer is smoking. However, the prevalence of lung cancer in never-smokers has been increasing overtime. Moreover, it is now recognized that the lung cancer of non-smoker patients has very distinct characteristics. In this retrospective cohort study (N = 520), we describe the characteristics of non-smoker patients and their non-small cell lung carcinoma and compare them to those of smokers. The pati... Mehr ...