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EPISODE · Mar 17, 2026 · 6 MIN

Bonus: Women never-smokers and lung cancer

from GPs Talk Cancer

GPs Rebecca and Sarah explore evolving trends in lung cancer, focusing on the increasing incidence in women who have never smoked. They highlight the importance of recognising symptoms like reduced exercise tolerance and persistent cough, regardless of smoking history, and discuss why primary care clinicians should have a low threshold for requesting chest X-rays. The episode also covers differences in genetic changes, treatment, and prognosis for non-smoker lung cancer patients and the need for prompt investigation to avoid late diagnoses.If you loved this episode and would like to hear more like this, please send your review to [email protected] and share the series with a colleague.GPs Talk Cancer is the podcast series from GatewayC. GatewayC is the free early cancer diagnosis resource funded by the NHS and is part of The Christie NHS Foundation Trust. View the full shownotes for this episode at Podcast - GatewayCProduced by GatewayC and Listening Dog Media.DISCLAIMER: We know this podcast might be of interest to anybody, however it is aimed at primary care health professionals. All patient cases are based on real stories from our clinical practice as GPs. They are fully anonymised with no identifiable patient data. All featured statistics are accurate at the time of recording. All views expressed by guest speakers are their own. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

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