For Scientific American Science Quickly, I'm Rachel Feldman.
Lung cancer is the deadliest cancer among women in the United States,
surpassing the mortality numbers of breast and ovarian cancer combined.
And surprisingly,
younger women who have never smoked are increasingly being diagnosed with the disease.
Here to explain what could be driving this trend and why early screening can make all the difference is Jonathan Vienna,
a thoracic surgeon at New York Presbyterian and Wild Cornell.
Thank you so much for joining us.
Thank you for having me.
So our viewers and listeners might be surprised to hear that lung cancer and women now tops breast cancer,
ovarian cancer combined.
Can you tell us more about what's going on there?
Yeah, definitely so.
In general, lung cancer is the number one cancer affecting people in the United States,
both men and women.
If you look at the American Cancer Society,
around 226,000 new cases of lung cancer are projected to be diagnosed in 2025.
Of those, about 50% are cancer-related deaths,
meaning 120,000 people die every year from lung cancer.
Now, what's...