Shira Boehler: The Cancer That Kills More Young Women Than Breast, Ovarian & Colon Combined | #16

<p>You did everything right, kale, running, annual blood tests, and still ended up with a mass in your lung. So why does the disease killing more young, healthy women than breast, ovarian, and colon cancer combined still carry the stigma of a smoker's disease?</p><p>In this episode of The XX Lab, Dr. Sarah Hill sits down with Shira Boehler, lung cancer survivor, author of the New York Times bestseller One Scan Saved My Life, and founder of the Cancer Doesn't Care foundation, to explore why lung cancer is rising in young non-smoking women, sex differences in medicine, the toll on caregivers, and why a $200 scan could rewrite the guidelines.</p><p>KEY TAKEAWAYS:</p><p>- Lung cancer kills more young, healthy women than breast, ovarian, and colon cancer combined, yet gets a fraction of the awareness and funding.</p><p>- "If you smoke, you get lung cancer" has curdled into "if you have lung cancer, you smoked", a stigma that keeps survivors silent.</p><p>- The real truth is simpler and scarier: if you have lungs, you can get lung cancer.</p><p>- Non-smoking women in parts of Asia get lung cancer at higher rates than smoking men, pointing to a female health crisis science hasn't explained.<br /><br />Timestamps<br />One Scan Saved My Life: Shira Boehler's Story (<a href="https://00:00" rel="noopener noreferrer nofollow">00:00</a>)</p><p>Pushing for the Low-Dose CT Doctors Dismissed (<a href="https://05:37" rel="noopener noreferrer nofollow">05:37</a>)</p><p>Why Lung Cancer Kills More Young Women Than Breast Cancer (08:52)</p><p>The Myth That Only Smokers Get Lung Cancer (<a href="https://14:08" rel="noopener noreferrer nofollow">14:08</a>)</p><p>How Women's Heart Attack Symptoms Went Ignored for Decades (<a href="https://21:31" rel="noopener noreferrer nofollow">21:31</a>)</p><p>How She Told Her Kids She Had Cancer (<a href="https://27:20" rel="noopener noreferrer nofollow">27:20</a>)</p><p>Why Your Surgeon Should Warn You About Depression (<a href="https://39:32" rel="noopener noreferrer nofollow">39:32</a>)</p><p>The Ripple Effect: Susan Wojcicki and Hidden Costs (<a href="https://43:52" rel="noopener noreferrer nofollow">43:52</a>)</p><p>What to Say When Your Doctor Refuses the Scan (<a href="https://53:00" rel="noopener noreferrer nofollow">53:00</a>)</p><p>How to Get a Low-Dose CT for Under $500 (<a href="https://56:14" rel="noopener noreferrer nofollow">56:14</a>)</p><p>If She Could Rewrite the Screening Guidelines (1:04:36)</p><p>The One Thing She Wants E