Am thinking that: - lung cancer, from what I've read, looks like any old thing until it's too late - doctors use research to inform their judgement around testing - research suggests that cancer tends to show up in older people Someone who started smoking at 11 will have smoked for 20 years by the time they're 31. Their doctor might not bother testing for cancer because the age profile is lower than the typical threshold (age 50, I think). Thanks Denise, for replying. But if the number of cigarettes smoked is, as many people say, the most important cause of lung cancer, what role does age play? http://journals.lww.com/epidem/Abstract/1993/09000/The_Effect_of_Age_at_Smoking_Initiation_on_Lung.10.aspx http://jnci.oxfordjournals.org/cgi/content/full/91/7/614 http://ehp.niehs.nih.gov/members/2002/110p555-558wiencke/wiencke-full.html One of the articles above suggests that early smoking affects development in a special way...
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Doctors don’t test for cancer they run tests and the results combined with their training, the patents history and exam help lead them to a diagnosis. 2% of lung cancers occur in patients under 45 years old and smoking has little to nothing to do with it at that age.
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