Tell Congress and the president to support the Lung Cancer Mortality Act of 2009
December 13th, 2009
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.