The Deadliest Cancer We Face Now
What you must know whether you smoke or not.

Cancer.org
Lung Cancer Alliance

Lung cancer is the leading cause of cancer death in the United States. It will kill more people this year than breast cancer, prostate cancer, colon cancer, liver cancer, kidney cancer, and melanoma combined.

Lung cancer kills more women than breast, ovarian and uterine cancers combined — approximately 68,000 women will die from lung cancer this year alone.

Lung cancer diagnosis in women has jumped fourfold in the past 30 years. Equally alarming, 41 percent of all lung cancer cases occur in women who haven't yet reached their 50th birthday. A shocking 20 percent of women diagnosed with lung cancer are nonsmokers. The underlying truth…no woman can afford to ignore lung cancer’s deadly statistics.

While research suggests: women who don’t smoke are twice as likely to get lung cancer as nonsmoking men, women are more susceptible than men to to the carcinogens in cigarette smoke, and women are almost three times as likely to develop lung cancer, men are not imune. Lung cancer will kill three times as many men as prostate cancer this year.

Even though lung cancer data proves this lethal trend, it remains dolefully underfunded and under-researched. As reported last year, the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) spent $204 million on breast and cervical cancer research, but nothing for lung cancer. Sadly, funding efforts and research dollars are non-existent because shame often keeps sufferers with a history of smoking from petitioning for help thereby keeping lung cancer out of the publicity spotlight.

In March 2006, Congress did sponsor two resolutions requesting that the President declare lung cancer a national public health priority. It has called for a 50 percent reduction in the disease’s death rate by 2015. However, with atleast 20 Americans dying of lung cancer hourly, it remains obvious that more needs to be done…quickly.

YOU CAN HELP Join with Kings Bay Mail & More to lobby for more lung cancer research. Visit lungcanceralliance.org and join the thousands of people that have already signed the petition to make lung cancer a national public health priority. Visit the “Take Action” tab to see where you might be able to get involved.