November is Lung Cancer Awareness Month
This time last year I was hoping I would get an event put together for this year.... I am sorry that I didn't. As it turns out, I can't even get the floors mopped! So, my goal is to get an event put together for NEXT year! How about a walk the morning of, or the day after, Thanksgiving? We all need the walk and it is a time of thanksgiving. Seems perfect.
It is an opportunity to raise awareness, educate folks, and raise a bit of money.
Lung Cancer Awareness Month is a national campaign to raise awareness about lung cancer.
According to facts presented by LCA (Lung Cancer Alliance, http://www.lungcanceralliance.org), lung cancer will kill more people this year than breast cancer, prostate cancer, colon cancer, liver cancer, kidney cancer and melanoma combined.
Lung cancer will kill three times as many men as prostate cancer this year. Lung cancer will kill nearly twice as many women as breast cancer this year.
In 2006, 174,470 people will be diagnosed with lung cancer in the United States. About 92,700 men and 81,770 women will develop the disease -- the leading cause of cancer death among both men and women.
An estimated 162,460 men and women will die of lung cancer this year, accounting for 28 percent of all cancer deaths and taking more lives than colon, breast, and prostate cancers combined. While most people diagnosed with lung cancer will die within the first two years of diagnosis -- this has not changed in 10 years -- some people are cured. There are currently about 333,000 long-term survivors.
To see information about Lung Cancer Awareness month and items to use to promote awareness, go to http://www.lungcanceralliance.org/involved/lcam_month.html.
Here's to HOPE!
hugs,
chris
It is an opportunity to raise awareness, educate folks, and raise a bit of money.
Lung Cancer Awareness Month is a national campaign to raise awareness about lung cancer.
According to facts presented by LCA (Lung Cancer Alliance, http://www.lungcanceralliance.org), lung cancer will kill more people this year than breast cancer, prostate cancer, colon cancer, liver cancer, kidney cancer and melanoma combined.
Lung cancer will kill three times as many men as prostate cancer this year. Lung cancer will kill nearly twice as many women as breast cancer this year.
In 2006, 174,470 people will be diagnosed with lung cancer in the United States. About 92,700 men and 81,770 women will develop the disease -- the leading cause of cancer death among both men and women.
An estimated 162,460 men and women will die of lung cancer this year, accounting for 28 percent of all cancer deaths and taking more lives than colon, breast, and prostate cancers combined. While most people diagnosed with lung cancer will die within the first two years of diagnosis -- this has not changed in 10 years -- some people are cured. There are currently about 333,000 long-term survivors.
To see information about Lung Cancer Awareness month and items to use to promote awareness, go to http://www.lungcanceralliance.org/involved/lcam_month.html.
Here's to HOPE!
hugs,
chris
posted by Chris in Wyoming @ 10:13 AM
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