AUGUSTA, Ga. (WJBF)- November is lung cancer awareness month.
Lung cancer is one of the deadliest cancers in America, causing over one million deaths in men and women every year. And there’s a reason for that.
“About 80 to 85% of all lung cancers are going to be caused or attributed to cigarette smoking. But that’s not the only thing. We see a lot of lung cancer in people who don’t normally have those kind of risk factors. So people who are younger, people who’ve never smoked, we still see lung cancer in those people. And it could be things like pollution, secondhand smoke exposure. And the second most common thing is actually radon exposure,” said Dr. Jason Henry, Pulmonology, Critical Care at Piedmont…