Shaw's Eco-Logic

Although breast and prostate cancer are the most frequently diagnosed, lung cancer is still the biggest killer—in both sexes. 90 percent of the cases are related to smoking, but what about the other ten percent?

Various factors have been proposed, but genetic predisposition has always been of interest, if only there were some way of determining it.

Studies of family history might not be that helpful. If many of your relatives smoked, and did get lung cancer, what does that mean to you if you don't smoke?

Now, researchers out of the University of Cincinnati have identified gene RGS17 as a likely candidate for a lung cancer susceptibility gene.

Read all about it in my latest HND piece.