November is Lung Cancer Awareness Month

Do you know the facts about Lung Cancer?

Lung cancer is the leading cause of cancer death in the United States.
Lung cancer causes 30% of all cancer deaths.
Lung cancer is the leading cancer killer among Caucasian, African American, Asian and Hispanic males.
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.
Over 50% of new lung cancer cases will be diagnosed at a very late stage - Stage IIIb or IV - and only 5% of them will live for five years.
People who have never smoked make up 10-15% of new lung cancer cases.
People who are currently smoking make up 35-40% of new lung cancer cases.
People who are former smokers make up 50% of new lung cancer cases.

Facts provided by the Lung Cancer Alliance

Lung Cancer Alliance, Washington, DC, is the only national non-profit organization dedicated solely to patient support and advocacy for people living with lung cancer or those at risk for the disease. Lung Cancer Alliance's mission is to lead the movement to reverse decades of stigma and neglect by empowering those with or at risk for the disease, elevating awareness and changing health policy.

University of Wisconsin Paul P. Carbone Comprehensive Cancer Center

The Paul P. Carbone Comprehensive Cancer Center is currently raising funds to create the first ever Lung Cancer Research Center in Wisconsin, which will benefit people locally and nationally. It will be a tremendous benefit to the community in helping eleminate deaths from lung cancer. As a lung cancer survivor myself, I am excited that the UW has taken such a step in building this center to eradicate this disease.

I would appreciate your help and support of these two great organizations by donating today or sometime during this month of November.

Thank you in advance,

Gayle M. Zinda, Survivor, Advocate

"You can have everything in life you want if you will just help enough other people get what they want." -Zig Ziglar