The cancer blame game
July 14th, 2010
The blame that society puts on lung cancer patients could seriously impede attention and research funding on the disease, a local expert says.
“It gets 3 per cent of the total research funding for all cancers, and yet it is the No. 1 killer,” says Dr. James Gowing, a Flamborough doctor and cochair of the Cancer Advocacy Coalition of Canada (CACC).