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Scientists discover that nicotine promotes spread of lung cancer to the brain
June 4, 2020 by NewsBot
Among people who have the most common type of lung cancer, up to 40% develop metastatic brain tumors, with an average survival time of less than six months. But why non-small-cell lung cancer so often spreads to the brain has been poorly understood.
