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‘Enormous Progress’ in Reducing Cancer Does Not Include Lung Cancer

epidemic.pngLast week, in issuing its annual review of government statistics entitled Cancer Facts and Figures for 2008, the American Cancer Society cited the “enormous progress that has been made against cancer over the past 15 years.”

Laurie Fenton Ambrose, LCA President & CEO said, “Sadly this is not true for lung cancer, which is still the biggest cancer killer and its 5 year survival rate is still only 15 percent.”

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