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Lung Cancer-Commonly Found

Lung Cancer is most commonly found in people that smoke, doctors have identified a genetic variant that increases the risk of disease for people who inherit it, even if they have never smoked or are light smokers.

Researchers followed up on the study of 93 families who have had at least two incidences of lung cancer from there relatives. Among those 1,500 people, almost 500 of them had lung cancer. In a 2004 study lead by GELCC, the researchers idicated a large region on human chromosome 6 that conferred a greater lung cancer risk in a subset of families with many affected individuals.