Cancer Questions

Cardi, Pops, and Miss Georgia are attending a memorial service for a friend who passed of lung cancer. The deceased was not a smoker, but the friends noted that she had a family member with lung cancer and that her husband was a smoker. Pops and Cardi were participating in some citizen science with Dr. Cook about why people in the community get cancer, and they invited Miss Georgia to the meeting about the results. Dr. Cook explains that cancer risk is a combination of genes, the environment and lifestyle choices. The group notices that their community has a much higher rate of lung cancer and cancer mortality compared to the national rates, and they want to know what they can do about that.