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Lorraine Cheryl Pelosof, MD, PhD, on Never-Smokers in NSCLC

2015 IASLC World Conference on Lung Cancer

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Lorraine Cheryl Pelosof, MD, PhD, of UT Southwestern Medical Center, discusses her study findings, which demonstrate an increasing proportion of never-smokers among patients with non–small cell lung cancer (Abstract ORAL 22.01).



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