{"id":208893,"date":"2025-03-17T08:04:10","date_gmt":"2025-03-17T13:04:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2025\/03\/lung-cancer-is-rising-in-non-smokers-and-this-could-be-why"},"modified":"2025-03-17T08:04:10","modified_gmt":"2025-03-17T13:04:10","slug":"lung-cancer-is-rising-in-non-smokers-and-this-could-be-why","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2025\/03\/lung-cancer-is-rising-in-non-smokers-and-this-could-be-why","title":{"rendered":"Lung Cancer Is Rising in Non-Smokers, And This Could Be Why"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/lung-cancer-is-rising-in-non-smokers-and-this-could-be-why.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>While the number of smokers in the world as a proportion of the population <a href=\"https:\/\/www.who.int\/news\/item\/16-01-2024-tobacco-use-declines-despite-tobacco-industry-efforts-to-jeopardize-progress\">is dropping<\/a>, lung <a href=\"https:\/\/www.sciencealert.com\/cancer\" class=\"\" rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_self\">cancer<\/a> continues to cause <a href=\"https:\/\/www.wcrf.org\/preventing-cancer\/cancer-statistics\/lung-cancer-statistics\/\">almost 2 million deaths<\/a> per year \u2013 and new research reports on a concerning rise in cases among people who\u2019ve never lit up a cigarette.<\/p>\n<p>The international team behind the research found that rates of lung cancer in this group of people could be tied to increasing <a href=\"https:\/\/www.sciencealert.com\/almost-nowhere-on-earth-is-safe-from-air-pollution-now-scientists-warn\">levels of pollution<\/a> and the subsequent damage to health, with east Asia, particularly China, the worst affected.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cAs lung cancer is the leading cancer worldwide, a comprehensive understanding of the changing epidemiological patterns and their potential causes is essential,\u201d <a href=\"https:\/\/doi.org\/10.1016\/S2213-2600(24)00428-4\">write<\/a> the researchers in their published paper.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>While the number of smokers in the world as a proportion of the population is dropping, lung cancer continues to cause almost 2 million deaths per year \u2013 and new research reports on a concerning rise in cases among people who\u2019ve never lit up a cigarette. The international team behind the research found that rates [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":732,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11,1495],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-208893","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-biotech-medical","category-health"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/208893","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/732"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=208893"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/208893\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=208893"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=208893"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=208893"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}