Statistically speaking, what is the average age that smokers who develop lung cancer are diagnosed? Again statistically speaking, how long has the average lung cancer patient who acquired the disease through smoking been smoking?
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Statistically, the lung cancers can occur after about 20 years of smoking...though the longer one smokes the higher the risk.
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About 60-65 years old
3 :
The majority of people that develop Lung Cancer are over the age of 50 and the average is 60.
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