Scientists discover that nicotine promotes spread of lung cancer to the brain

(Wake Forest Baptist Medical Center) 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.
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