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Lawrence Koutcher

See Inside Your Lung Cancer Risk See Inside Your Lung Cancer Risk
See Inside Your Lung Cancer Risk Lung cancer is the leading cause of cancer deaths among men and women but is also among the most preventable, according to the American Cancer Society. “Currently, most lung cancer patients are people who either smoked or were exposed to secondhand smoke from their families,” said Ahmad Raza, M.D., medical director at NewYork-Presbyterian Hudson Valley Hospital’s Cancer Center and assistant professor of medicine in the Division of Hematology and Oncology at Columbia University Vagelos College of Physicians and Surgeons. Lung cancer deaths are still high although baby boomers and older peo…