The Nonsmoking Gun

“Lung tissue examined after the surgery confirmed a previous test that revealed a diagnosis of lung adenocarcinoma.” Pope Leo has lung cancer. From The Conversation: Pope Leo XIV’s lung cancer highlights growing number of nonsmokers diagnosed with the disease. “When many people think of an average lung cancer patient, they often imagine an older man smoking. But the face of lung cancer has changed. Over the past 15 years, more women, never smokers and younger people are being diagnosed with lung cancer.”

+ The problem is more prevalent. So are the potential solutions. NYT (Gift Article): A New World of Lung Cancer Therapy Awaits Pope Leo. “In a way, Pope Leo XIV may be lucky he got lung cancer now and not, say, six years ago. Treatments have changed so much, specialists say, that the old days are almost unrecognizable.”