Indeed, nowadays, many lung cancer patients have no history of smoking. These “blameless” patients seem to develop a different kind of lung cancer from those who report a history of smoking – one that is more responsive to new medications and has better, albeit still poor, outcomes.
事实上，如今许多肺癌患者根本没有吸烟史。这些“无辜”病人所患的似乎是与报告吸烟史患者不同的肺癌类型——这种肺癌对新药反应更大，疗效也更好（尽管仍需大大改善）。