Lung Cancer Group Fights Stigma, Raises Awareness
A trio of Northbrook women push for the No. 1 fatal cancer's fair share in research resources.
Once it was the United States vs. lung cancer. The U.S. Surgeon General’s 1964 report formally linking smoking with lung cancer, after decades of suspicion, seemed to declare war on the disease. Two years later, the drawn and dying actor William Talman filmed a famous TV commercial warning viewers not to smoke like he did. In 1971, the government banned cigarette ads on radio and TV. Today, lung cancer doesn’t have such a lofty profile anymore, even though it remains the No. 1 cancer killer and increasingly afflicts non-smokers in a pattern that has baffled medical researchers. Other forms of the disease, namely breast, colon and prostate cancers, have seemingly vaulted ahead in public awareness, activism and research funds. LUNGevity …
Kay Vick
2:59 pm on Monday, August 22, 2011
My son was diagnosed with Stage IV lung cancer on October 5, 2009. He was given this news 5 days after turning 41. He will be 43 on Sept. 30 and we continue to pray for his miracle. We know they are out there. He lives CO and is being treated by some of the best doctors in CO. He NEVER smoked, and like you said ~ people just seem to "blame" lung cancer patients figuring that they did it to … more ›