Research to fight lung cancer lags
Most people do not 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.
There is a particularly hideous stigma surrounding this disease, yet 60 percent of new patients are former smokers or people who have never smoked.
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