Lung cancer, melanoma DNA sequenced

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Originally Posted by Danzig

it's not that simple. people have caught lung cancer that never smoked and didn't live with someone who did. my grandmother smoked for 60 years, she never got it. she lived to be 92. all smokers don't get it, and all non-smokers aren't immune.

15% actually Deb which is a pretty hefty number actually........

We used to think it was explainable by Radon emission, which is why most mid atlantic homes have radon inspections before they are sold.

If a 1/6 of all lung cancers have nothing to do with smoking, and are NOT explainable by Radon then we still have quite a bit of work to do. It's a great thing that they have the gene map so they can start to play around with sequencing and see what they find but we are talking huge numbers here.