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How Can Someone Get Lung Cancer Who Never Smoked?

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And why is there no treatment? My mom just told me that her neice (my cousin) is dying of lung cancer...but she never smoked a day in her life (although I believe my uncle did.) I don't really know her all that well but it still makes me very sad. She's got a little girl with a disability and two other kids as well. I just dont understand how this happened!
The town she lives in has cean air as it's a medium sized town. The doctor also only gave her a year and said there is no treatment for her.

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dustiiart June 18, 2009 at 7:22 am

This is very sad and unfortunate, sorry for this news you've received. My MIL had lung cancer and she never smoked either, neither did her husband. However some of her kids did and when they visited she never discouraged them from smoking in the house.

Also, she used to enjoy a wood stove :) and when families were over and babies needed changing she'd shove the diapers in the wood stove…she also gardened and used Purlite in the soil and with all of these combined, the doctors believed that it was the carsenagenics that were in all these things that resulted in her cancer.

Her father however died of throat cancer and this was always a severe fear she had…that she'd get cancer. She was a sweet lady. I now have a brother in law (her son) suffering from this as well.

Chemo, radiation, medications…she may be okay if they have it on time and are more aggressive than the disease is. I hope she fights this and lives a long and happy life. My MIL lived for 7 years after diagnosis, my BIL is doing well, was treated about 4 years ago and no sign of return as of yet.

Wish her the best

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