Friend and fellow Lung Cancer advocate, Jennifer Windrum, has started a new campaign. Below is an interview she did recently with Kathryn Joosten. Check out her other efforts below:
Blog: http://wtflungcancer.posterous.com/
Facebook group: http://www.facebook.com/group.php?gid=161802317682&ref=ts
Twitter: http://twitter.com/wtflungcancer
YouTube: http://www.youtube.com/user/jenniferjwindrum
Monday, November 23, 2009
Wednesday, November 4, 2009
3 days left!
Team Haney is just 3 days away from our walk. We've reached 40% of our goal - a little over $8000! I am so proud of our team and want to thank everyone who has contributed or supported us in some way.
With every donation made, we are closer to finding a cure for the biggest cancer-killer!
Even if you are unable to contribute, please read on. Increasing awareness of this disease and its victims will help our cause as well.
Lung cancer kills more than 160,000 people annually in the US – more people than breast, prostate, and colon, liver, kidney and melanoma cancers combined. Lung cancer kills almost twice as many American women as breast cancer and more than three times as many men as prostate cancer annually. Despite this, research funding for lung cancer lags behind many other common cancers and common diseases, such that treatments for lung cancer patients - although slowly improving - are insufficient to meet the challenges of this deadly disease.
The survival rates for colon, breast and prostate cancer are now 67% 89% and 99% respectively. Lung cancer’s survival
rate is still only 15%.
More facts:
http://www.nationallungcancerpartnership.org/index.cfm?page=lung_cancer_facts_US
http://www.nationallungcancerpartnership.org/index.cfm?page=lung_cancer_info
http://participate.freetobreathe.org/goto/teamhaney
With every donation made, we are closer to finding a cure for the biggest cancer-killer!
Even if you are unable to contribute, please read on. Increasing awareness of this disease and its victims will help our cause as well.
Lung cancer kills more than 160,000 people annually in the US – more people than breast, prostate, and colon, liver, kidney and melanoma cancers combined. Lung cancer kills almost twice as many American women as breast cancer and more than three times as many men as prostate cancer annually. Despite this, research funding for lung cancer lags behind many other common cancers and common diseases, such that treatments for lung cancer patients - although slowly improving - are insufficient to meet the challenges of this deadly disease.
The survival rates for colon, breast and prostate cancer are now 67% 89% and 99% respectively. Lung cancer’s survival
rate is still only 15%.
More facts:
http://www.nationallungcancerpartnership.org/index.cfm?page=lung_cancer_facts_US
http://www.nationallungcancerpartnership.org/index.cfm?page=lung_cancer_info
http://participate.freetobreathe.org/goto/teamhaney
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