Lung cancer is quietly rewriting its own rulebook. Once labelled an elderly male smoker’s disease, it is now increasingly affecting women under 50, many of whom have never smoked a cigarette in their ...

Lung cancer cases are increasing in people who have never smoked, especially in women, a new study by the World Health Organization's cancer agency has found. The findings, published in The Lancet ...

Please provide your email address to receive an email when new articles are posted on . Researchers found a significantly increased adjusted risk for COPD diagnosis among women vs. men. Women had a ...

After a car accident in 2016, Yovanna Portillo, then 34, visited the emergency room as a precaution. Doctors diagnosed her with whiplash from the collision. But one of the scans she underwent detected ...

Women under 50 are now 82% more likely to be diagnosed with cancer than their male counterparts. Getty Images Cancer is showing a new, troubling trend in the United States. Published today, the latest ...

Women’ are around 50% more likely than men to develop COPD, the umbrella term for chronic lung conditions, such as emphysema and bronchitis, even if they have never smoked or smoked much less than ...

Smoke like a man, die like a man. U.S. women who smoke today have a much greater risk of dying from lung cancer than they did decades ago, partly because they are starting younger and smoking more -- ...