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.
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