for the first time since her operation remembering the first conversation, she had with doctor jeffrey velarde. this is your situation. this is what i'm studying. it's exactly you. and this is what i'm going to do. doctor vallarta regularly removes cancers from the chest, mostly lungs and he noticed something about seven years ago, about 2017 is when i started getting young asian patients that were my colleagues, that were my friends that were found to have lung cancer, 30 year olds. so we looked at all of our northern california data at kaiser, and we found that all lung cancer and everybody, all race ethnicity is decreasing dramatically except asian women nonsmokers. the reason for this disparity in nonsmoking asian women is still unclear, but doctor vallarta says his early research shows the highest risk factor for nonsmoking asian women could be a family history of lung cancer. but lung cancer screenings nationwide require patients to be more than 50 years old and have an extensive smoking history. right now, if you go into your primary care provider and say, i'm asian, i'm 50, i don't smo