CASE REPORT article Volume 12 - 2025 | https://doi.org/10.3389/fmed.2025.1714486 This article is part of the Research TopicCase Reports in Pulmonary Medicine 2025View all 27 articles Lung cancer remains one of the most burdensome malignancies worldwide and is associated with a dismal prognosis (1). Global population-based survival analyses across 185 countries have demonstrated that lung cancer continues to rank first in both incidence and cancer-related mortality among men (2).