Clinically Speaking: Questions and Answers About Early-Onset Lung Cancer

Cases of nonsmokers getting lung cancer have been going up over the past 25 years, and with that, more cases of early-onset lung cancer (before the age of 50) have been occurring.HealthyWomen spoke with Mohana Roy, M.D., medical oncologist and clinical assistant professor at the Stanford University School of Medicine, about why early-onset lung cancer is on the rise — and what experts are doing about it.​Do we know why the diagnosis of lung cancer in young people is on the rise, particularly among nonsmokers?We don’t know why. Part of it has to do with improvements in imaging, things like X-ra