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Dana Reeve has been diagnosed with lung cancer at age 44

Filed in archive News on August 9, 2005

The widow if Christopher Reeve has been diagnosed with lung cancer at the age of 44. She was a non-smoker, however had been exposed to second-hand smoke during her career as a singer.

Adenocarcinoma is the most frequent type of lung cancer associated with non-smokers. The five-year survival for a resected adenocarcinoma is approximately 30 to 40 percent. ("Dana Reeve, Non-Smoker, Diagnosed with Lung Cancer", ABC News, Aug.9)

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