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disease that claims 440 lives every day of the year in this country.
You can take pride in being a survivor in spite of public indifference. Research saves lives.
It was research that improved the five-year survival in the past 30 years of prostate cancer from 67 percent to 99 percent, breast cancer survival from 75 percent to 87 percent, and colon cancer from 50 percent to 64 percent. It’s been a lack of research funding that increased the survival from lung cancer, just 2 percent from 13 percent to 15 percent!
You can take pride in being a survivor in spite of prejudice, the morbid attitude of the public, in refusal to adequately fund lung cancer research. In the last reported year, our nation provided $23,754 per death for breast cancer research, $11,959 for prostate cancer research, $5,500 for colon research. but just $1,414 per death for lung cancer research.
Lung cancer is a genetic disease, the susceptibility and often cause being inherited.
Inhaling pollutants and having had lung diseases increase the risk of lung cancer.
Anyone can be diagnosed with lung cancer.
Unlike most cancers, there are rarely symptoms of the disease when it is most successfully treatable.
The only significant way of reducing cancer death toll in this country is by providing the research funds. Talk to your legislators about increasing lung cancer research funding. Give to the Partnership for Lung Cancer, to Joan’s Legacy, the Lung Cancer Alliance or Gundersen Lutheran, and specify it is for lung cancer research.
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