New York Times - Patient Voices: Lung Cancer

Amazing interviews with real people battling Lung Cancer. Listen to them here:

http://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2009/04/23/health/healthguide/TE_LUNGCANCER.html

From the site:

It is estimated that there were 215,020 new cases of lung cancer diagnosed in the United States in 2008, and 161,840 deaths. What is it like to live with the No. 1 cancer killer? Six men and women speak about living with lung cancer.

BREATH OF HOPE: Lung Cancer The Invisible Disease

This one hour documentary just started airing last week. About the film:

BREATH OF HOPE: Lung Cancer The Invisible Disease is an hour-long documentary seeking to educate the public about lung cancer – in particular non-small cell lung cancer.

Through five poignant patient stories in five different states across the U.S., viewers witness the struggles and triumphs of lung cancer patients and their families.

The documentary also explores new therapies on the horizon and the latest genetic markers that may offer hope for extending survival.

merkerson-2Emmy and Golden Globe Award-winning American actress S. Epatha Merkerson, best known as Lt. Anita Van Buren on the long-running television crime drama Law & Order, hosts the documentary. Merkerson lost two friends to lung cancer and helped her sister fight her way to a cure.

Check airing times here: http://breathofhope.net/?page_id=331

Lung Cancer 101: http://breathofhope.net/?page_id=15

Please sign the petition to increase Federal Lung Cancer Funding

The National Lung Cancer Partnership has started a petition, via Facebook, to increase Federal funding for lung cancer research. If you are here, you probably are already aware of why this is important, but for those who aren't:

Lung cancer continues to be the biggest cancer killer in every ethnic group, taking more lives each year than breast, prostate, colon, kidney, melanoma and liver cancers combined. Yet lung cancer continues to be allotted the least research funding per death of all the major cancers.

About 25,000-30,000 never-smokers die each year of this disease (just this sub-group is more than die of leukemia, lymphoma, liver or ovarian cancers)!

Over 160,000 people die annually from lung cancer. In fact, it kills twice as many women as breast cancer. Eight years ago, a federal study group warned the National Cancer Institute that lung cancer research was being funded far below its massive public health impact. The Surgeon General even called lung cancer in women an ‘epidemic’.”

Please sign the petition.

LCA Partners with Find a Cure Panel‏

I received this announcement via Facebook this week and would encourage any of you who are currently battling, survivors or caregivers to sign-up.

Lung Cancer Alliance is now working with Find a Cure Panel, a company that helps coordinate research, primarily around products and services. They are looking for lung cancer survivors and caregivers.

Please consider participating in this online research by signing up to participate in a Lung Cancer Panel. If you sign up to be on the Lung Cancer Panel, you will receive periodic emails asking if you are interested in participating in a market research study.

You will be asked to voice your opinion about a range of products and services relevant to lung cancer survivors and caregivers. The feedback that companies get from you will be useful in developing products and services that will be more helpful to survivors and caregivers in the future, so your opinions are really valuable.

There’s an added bonus. Each time you participate, a $25 minimum donation will be made to Lung Cancer Alliance. Just to be clear, this is a nice bonus for us, but not the primary reason we are working with this initiative.

If you are interested in joining the Panel, please visit this link and sign up: www.findacurepanel.com/lca