Most people do not even know that lung cancer takes more lives than all the other major cancers combined. It will kill more than three times as many men as prostate cancer and nearly twice as many women as breast cancer.
Yet lung cancer receives only a small fraction of research funding.
All patients are stigmatized whether they smoked or not and no one seems to care that over 60% of new patients are former smokers or people who never smoked at all.
One in five women being diagnosed now with lung cancer have never smoked.
As a former smoker myself, I worry too much about lung cancer, and although I quit in my early 30's I still am at risk.
Cancer has touched our whole family when my mother died of Colo-Rectal cancer almost 2 years ago, and I can only imagine the untold suffering that is going on in so many households that have a loved one who has lung cancer.
Over 160,000 Americans will die this year alone from lung cancer! This is unacceptable, and with your help we can change this.
The Lung Cancer Mortality Reduction Act of 2009 needs to be enacted into law and a comprehensive lung cancer research program started as quickly as possible.
Please write the president and members of congress to vote for this act.
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