Despite smoking's well-known role in causing lung cancer, a significant number of patients who develop lung tumors have never smoked. While scientists are still working to understand what spurs cancer in so-called 'never-smokers,' a study suggests that 78% to 92% of lung cancers in patients who have never smoked can be treated with precision drugs already approved by the Food and Drug Administration to target specific mutations in a patient's tumor.
source https://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2021/09/210930171022.htm
source https://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2021/09/210930171022.htm
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