lung cancer

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Lung cancer is the deadliest cancer in Canada, much more lethal than, say, breast or colorectal cancer.

But if you think that lung cancer only happens to smokers, well, consider this.

It's currently estimated that somewhere around 28% of all lung cancers occur in people who don't smoke.

That's according to Lung Cancer Canada.

So this week we're asking what should people who've never smoked know about lung cancer? Hi Nicole, welcome to The Dose.

Thank

you for having me, Brian.

All right.

Next up on The Run, we got word from the Vatican that Pope Leo has officially been diagnosed with lung cancer.

He checked into the hospital yesterday to have that nodular lesion removed from his lung, and though the Vatican called the surgery successful, doctors did confirm after that surgery that that nodule was malignant.

So we don't know a whole lot more.

so concerning that you have...

And this is, you know, something that obviously happens.

You get secondhand smoke or you just-- Lung cancer can occur to non-smokers.

But certainly we hope for more information from the Vatican, but we wish Pope Leo the very best.

All right.

Next up on the run, we got word from the Vatican that Pope Leo has officially been diagnosed with lung cancer.

He checked into the hospital yesterday to have that nodular lesion removed from his lung.

And though the Vatican called the surgery successful, doctors did confirm after that surgery that that nodule was malignant.

And, Rose, I can't see anywhere any evidence that he's ever been a smoker.

That's always so, so concerning that you have, and this is something that obviously happens.

You get secondhand smoke or you just, lung cancer can occur to non-smokers, but certainly we hope for more information from the Vatican, but we wish Pope Leo the very best.

It's going to be a tough road.

All right.

Next up on The Run, we got word from the Vatican that Pope Leo has officially been diagnosed with lung cancer.

He checked into the hospital yesterday to have that nodular lesion removed from his lung, and though the Vatican called the surgery successful, doctors did confirm after that surgery that that nodule was malignant.

So we don't know a whole lot more.

And this is, you know, something that obviously happens.

You get secondhand smoke or you just...

Lung cancer can occur to non-smokers.

But certainly we hope for more information from the Vatican, but we wish Pope Leo the very best.

I haven't heard any of that stuff.

But we're gonna talk to an expert, um, who has not treated the Pope, as far as I know, but knows an awful lot about lung cancer.

He's a lung cancer specialist and director of thoracic medical oncology at, uh, Henry Ford Health, and that is, uh, Dr. Fawzi Abu-Rous.

Doctor, uh, it's, uh, my name's Paul.

Welcome to the program.

What I have seen, though, lately in my lifetime, doctor-

Yeah

... is the number of people who are coming down with lung cancer who never smoked.

So you've got this Palantir, and this is, this is un-freaking belie- Listen to this.

The chief technical officer, the CTO of Palantir, is saying that a bunch of their AI researchers are starting to smoke because they believe that if they get lung cancer, AI will fix it.

AI will cure them, or I, I mean, what? This is, I mean, this is unbelievable.

I can see a time when AI will replace some doctors.

And he said so many AI researchers have started smoking as a way of signaling to other researchers how much they believe in AI-

Hmm

... that if they get lung cancer, they believe that AI is going to cure them.

So now these AI researchers are s- smoking cigarettes like chimneys apparently.

Time to talk about your health.

The Pope has lung cancer.

It's the most common form of lung cancer, pulmonary adenocarcinoma, and it's also the one usually found in people who never smoked, and according to what I've seen, the Pope has never smoked.

This is also apparently more common in women, younger patients, and people of East Asian ancestry.

So it's certainly an opportunity to talk about lung cancer, which is the leading cause of cancer death.

Here in Canada, it's more lethal than breast, prostate, and colorectal cancers combined.

The overall survival rate for all stages is just 19%, though the Pope has said that his was diagnosed early.

Hi there.

[upbeat music] Pope Leo had a restful night, we're told, in the hospital after having surgery for what was originally called a nodule on his lung.

It's turned out to be lung cancer.

Uh, so Pope Leo recovering, a tranquil night in the hospital after cancer surgery, so says the Vatican.

I wanna get a, a good ana- analysis of this.

Uh, these nodules-

Thanks

... oftentimes they're very small, and they're not usually cancer, but in this case, obviously we've learned it's lung cancer.

Uh, what kind of prognosis? Was it caught early? Sounds like maybe, but you're the expert.

All right.

Next up on the run, we got word from the Vatican that Pope Leo has officially been diagnosed with lung cancer.

He checked into the hospital yesterday to have that nodular lesion removed from his lung, and though the Vatican called the surgery successful, doctors did confirm after that surgery that that nodule was malignant.

So we don't know a whole lot more.

And this is, you know, something that obviously happens.

You get secondhand smoke or you just...

Lung cancer can occur to non-smokers.

But certainly we hope for more information from the Vatican, but we wish Pope Leo the very best.