A perception that patients contributed to their own illness by smoking harms both smokers and nonsmokers with lung cancer. Lung cancer expert Joan H. Schiller, MD, of the University of Texas Southwestern Medical Center in Dallas, co-authored a study measuring public attitudes about lung cancer. The study found that 70% of participants had a negative attitude about lung cancer. By comparison, only 22% had a negative attitude about breast cancer. Read more here.
Study mentioned: Hamann HA, et al. Stigma among patients with lung cancer: a patient-reported measurement model. Psychooncology. 2013 Oct 3. [Epub ahead of print] PMID: 24123664
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