{"id":269640,"date":"2025-11-18T12:25:11","date_gmt":"2025-11-18T12:25:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/269640\/"},"modified":"2025-11-18T12:25:11","modified_gmt":"2025-11-18T12:25:11","slug":"ex-cricketer-susie-wilson-rowe-challenges-lung-cancer-myths","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/269640\/","title":{"rendered":"Ex-cricketer Susie Wilson-Rowe challenges lung cancer myths"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">The NHS said smoking was the most common cause of lung cancer, accounting for <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nhs.uk\/conditions\/lung-cancer\/causes\/\" class=\"ssrcss-f6h2dj-InlineLink e1kn3p7n0\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">seven out of 10 cases, external<\/a>, but <a href=\"https:\/\/www.bbc.co.uk\/future\/article\/20250605-the-mystery-rise-of-lung-cancer-in-non-smokers\" class=\"ssrcss-f6h2dj-InlineLink e1kn3p7n0\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">cases among non-smokers are on the rise<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Screening is being <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nhs.uk\/conditions\/lung-cancer\/causes\/\" class=\"ssrcss-f6h2dj-InlineLink e1kn3p7n0\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">rolled out across England, external<\/a> for 55-74-year-olds, but is not done everywhere and there are no plans to introduce it for younger patients.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">The diagnosis for non-smokers is more common in women \u2013 <a href=\"https:\/\/ruthstraussfoundation.com\/professionals\/non-smoking-lung-cancer\/\" class=\"ssrcss-f6h2dj-InlineLink e1kn3p7n0\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">twice that of men, and the under 55s, external<\/a> &#8211; according to the Ruth Strauss Foundation, set up in memory of the late wife of former England Cricket Captain Sir Andrew Strauss, who was diagnosed with incurable lung cancer and died, aged 46, in 2018.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Wilson-Rowe is currently undergoing an intensive course of chemotherapy, and is using a form of immunotherapy not available on the NHS.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">The Exon 20 Group, formed of patients, scientists, and oncologists, is looking into the specific mutation that led to Susie&#8217;s cancer, and researching further treatments.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The NHS said smoking was the most common cause of lung cancer, accounting for seven out of 10&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":269641,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[34],"tags":[1721,101,56,54,55],"class_list":["post-269640","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-cricket","tag-cricket","tag-sports","tag-uk","tag-united-kingdom","tag-unitedkingdom"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/269640","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=269640"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/269640\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/269641"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=269640"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=269640"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=269640"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}