Lung cancer in people who have never smoked is a very different disease (Image: Simon Fraser/ Science Photo Library)
IT STARTED with a sharp pain in her right side whenever she coughed or sneezed. At first, Stephanie Dunn Haney thought she’d broken a rib, so she decided to wait and see if the pain went away by itself. A year and a half later it was still there, so she went to her doctor, who performed an X-ray and found nothing. During the next 18 months, she had MRI scans, ultrasound, physiotherapy and chiropractic therapy. Still the pain didn’t go away.…
