Gurgaon: Around half of the patients who reported to the out-patient department (OPD) of Medanta — The Medicity over a period of 10 years and were diagnosed with lung cancer were non-smokers, according to an analysis by the doctors at the private hospital, which also suggested that the disease burden is expanding to younger populations.Earlier, 10-20% of the lung cancer patients were non-smokers, the doctors who carried out the study said. They also said their analysis involving 304 patients at the hospital’s OPD between March 2012 and November 2022 indicates that the risk group for lung cancer has expanded from the dominant at-risk demographic of older adults who smoke tobacco to a relative... [Read more]