Lung Cancer threw me a curve, and Curves is helping me recover!

My name is Bev. I live on the east coast of Florida. I have been married 47 years to Lee. We have three grown children and four precious grandsons. I am also a lung cancer survivor of more than 3 years!

Biomoda, Inc. (OTCBB: BMOD) President John Cousins called upon governors in all 50 states to proclaim November “Lung Cancer Awareness Month” on behalf of veterans and their families and pledged to continue the company’s focus on veterans in the research, development and commercialization of diagnostic technology for detection of early-stage lung cancer.

…The politics of illness are complex. Certain diseases have large communities of support, celebrity spokespeople, and ample funding. The financial aspect of disease can be overtly visible, such as in two side-by-side clinics in a medical building where I used to work. One clinic had an old waiting room nearly in disrepair, with uncomfortable chairs and a worn ceiling. The other clinic, with big financial donors, had new chairs and office equipment and was set apart by cut glass with accented designs. Another nurse remarked that this clinic looked like more like the entrance to a flagship Nordstrom!

A new website providing support and information to victims and survivors of lung cancer has been launched at TheFaceofLungCancer.org. The site provides a community for victims and survivors while distilling important information and advocating change in health care policy.

(PRWEB) November 9, 2009 — With health care as the number one issue in the public square, and in recognition of November’s designation as Lung Cancer Awareness Month, a new website offering support and information for lung cancer victims and survivors has launched.

One argument you may hear against health care reform concerns cancer survival rates. The United States has higher cancer survivor rates than countries with national health care systems, we’re told. Doesn’t this mean we should keep what we’ve got and not change it?

Certainly cancer survival rates are a critical issue for people suffering from the deadly lung cancer mesothelioma. So let’s look at this claim and see if there is any substance to it.

First, it’s important to understand that “cancer survival rate” doesn’t mean the rate of people who are cured of a cancer. The cancer survival rate is the percentage of people who survive a certain type of cancer for a specific amount of time, usually five years after diagnosis.

A scary trend is growing: More and more young women are being diagnosed with lung cancer. This weekend, there’s a walk aiming to reverse that trend.

The Mayor of the City of Cairo, Illinois has issued the following proclamation relative to November being Lung Cancer Awareness Month.

ANDY King describes himself as “no long-distance runner”.

Yet in the last two years the dad-of-two has twice tackled the Bupa Great North Run, and on Sunday he will embark on his first full marathon in New York.

The 35-year-old, who is originally from Thornaby, is runing in memory of his late wife, Lisa.

She lost her battle with lung cancer in April 2007, aged just 34, leaving behind a doting husband and two young children, Theo and Libby, now aged five and three.

The doctors told Susan Smedley Gerber that her lung cancer wasn’t caused by smoking but in many ways it didn’t matter. She found herself facing the same stigma and same reactions that thousands of lung cancer patients fight in addition to their cancer.

Thousands laced up their sneakers Sunday morning. It was a chance to get some exercise and battle lung disease as runners and walkers took on the 2009 Corporate Cup…