But again, that doesn't explain a young nonsmoker I see who has lung cancer, her sister had lung cancer, and her mom had lung cancer. We're trying to now find new genes that might explain these rare but unique families. We have a trial ongoing to study inherited mutations in a gene called eGFR. We know eGFR is an important driver of lung cancer, but really rarely, it can actually occur in a patient's genes and can cause dramatic familial risk syndrome. One of our ongoing efforts is to revisit the question of inherited risk now, using what we've learned about lung cancer biology to focus in on these unique families, where it appears recurrent lung cancer is occurring in various relatives who actually never smoked.
These may be rare genetic subtypes of lung cancer, where we're trying to find targeted therapies. One outlier group we're studying right now is young lung cancer. Young lung cancer is one percent of lung cancer, but they're a motivated group.
They're online, they're looking for an explanation as to why. What's the story with them? Because they're different. We have this remote-enrollment study where patients who are diagnosed with lung cancer under the age of 40 can consent online, can get free genetic testing of their tumor, submit a blood specimen, and then we're going to try to figure out in this community of patients if there is some inherited risk that explains why lung cancer happened in them.
We've got almost patients now. It's really a very interesting way to try to do lung cancer research remotely, where we actually can bring the research to the patients, wherever they are around the world, and hopefully, by studying these people that don't fit, we can start to change the narrative about why lung cancer happens and how to make it happen less often. MEGAN : Some say that the stigma associated with smoking impedes research and can compromise patient care.
Can you touch on this a little bit and give us some advice to lung cancer patients who are facing the stigma? It dramatically changes their understanding of their life and their health, but then the stigma makes them not talk about it, maybe not look for treatment options, and maybe makes them less able to tap into the optimism that we have about treating this disease. There are amazing advances. There are pill therapies. There are immune therapies.
There are so many clinical trials. In fact, we've made more headway with lung cancer than perhaps any other cancer in the past years. That's really exciting for me. I think there's so much happening that I want patients to be able to tap into that optimism, and I worry that the headwind of that stigma is that feeling of "This is something maybe I can't talk about, and maybe I won't get a good chance," because maybe there's some guilt involved in this.
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