Nov
09
Breathe Easier: November is Lung Cancer Awareness Month
Posted by The ClinicAid Team | Posted in Cancer, Clinical Trials
Tags: advocate, ala, american lung association, awareness, breathe, Cancer, health, lung cancer, lung cancer awareness, Lung Cancer Awareness Month
Lung cancer is one of the leading causes of death in the United States. Unfortunately, it is also ignored quite often, and people aren’t nearly as aware of this disease as they should be.
Lung cancer is the single deadliest cancer for both men and women in the United States. It has been estimated that 222,520 people will be diagnosed with lung cancer in 2010. It has also been estimated that 157,300 people will die from lung cancer this year. The American Lung Association (ALA) is determined not to take this lying down, and has dedicated the entire month of November to raising lung cancer awareness.
But while more men and women die every year from lung cancer than from any other type of cancer, including breast cancer, skin cancer, and colon cancer, the disease also remains one of the most preventable cancers (at least four out of five cases are associated with cigarette smoking).
What You Can Do Today To Raise Awareness about Lung Cancer Prevention and Treatment:
In southern California, ClinicAid physicians are working closely with major pharmaceutical companies on four lung cancer research studies at local hospitals and cancer centers. More details here on our website, www.ClinicAidusa.com. If you have any questions about clinical trials, give us a call at (888) 757-8881, ext. 51, our experienced research teams would be happy to provide you with information and resources.
Key Lung Cancer Symptoms:
This November, answer American Lung Association’s call to raise lung cancer awareness. You, too, can do your part to make sure that fewer people are caught off-guard by this deadly, yet extremely preventable disease. Let’s all breathe a little easier!
Show your support of the American Lung Association on Facebook and Twitter. Learn more about the organization by visiting www.lungusa.org.
Got great health tips of your own? We want to hear them! Please share with us on Facebook and Twitter!
With care,
The ClinicAid Team
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I sometimes wonder if the “Lung” and Cancer organisations actually speak to people with lung cancer prior to producing these blogs/ fundraising efforts etc…….. they are so often so offensive to the very people that are trying to be helped, because of the constant message that people with lung cancer have brought it upon themselves.
Lung cancer is the only cancer where we punish people because we assume they brought it upon themselves. We have been spending money on “Quit Smoking” programs for 20 years or more, yet the survival rate for lung cancer remains at an unchanged 15%. Its time to turn our attentions to early detection programs and to finding a cure. The fastest growing group of people who are being diagnosed with lung cancer are the never smokers. I am one of them. At 43 years old, and having never smoked a cigarette, I find myself with lung cancer, and I’m faced with the constant message that smoking causes lung cancer. Well, it didn’t cause mine, and there are many others in the same situation as me. Its time people became aware that lung cancer doesn’t discriminate – anyone can get it, and no-one deserves it.
If our “advocate” organisations can’t get that message out, we have very little hope of changing the situation
I can’t help but notice the “yea, but” attitude in your article. Yea, it’s the # type of cancer diagnosed in this country and yea, it does kill the most people, but those people just brought in on themselves because they could have prevented it.
“Most preventable cancer”, ok, well lets just assume that is true, what about the fact that 60% of newly diagnosed patients either never smoked or quit decades ago. That is not in your article on “awareness”. Neither is the PATHETIC lack of funding for this #1 type of cancer killer in America addressed in your article. Responsible AWARENESS would have include the funding issues, the stigma, the fact that whether you consider it preventable or not, that the patient deserves a cure! Instead, we get the “yea, but” too bad for 85% of those 220,000 people per year. They won’t get their cure! There is not enough money to research for early detection, cures, or targetted therapies for lung cancer. It is the least funded and affects the largest amount of people. Where’s the real awareness?
@Nicole – First, thanks for your readership and for your candid response. You’re right – No one deserves lung cancer. And while living a healthy lifestyle is important, cancer does not discriminate and there’s no way to prevent it.
The data you presented is accurate and noteworthy. There has been less funding dedicated to lung cancer research than research for other cancers – the good people at American Lung Association have been working to change that. Lung cancer is one of the less survivable cancers – ClinicAid Research is working with our pharma partners to change that.
While smoking, second-hand smoke, air pollution, radon, and asbestos are all correlative factors, the medical community still need to understand the disease better. Only then can we offer improved treatment options and hopefully one day, a cure.
This is why we do what do. And we do it for people like you and your husband. We hope that everything is going okay with your husband’s treatments. If there’s any information we can provide, please give us a call at (888) 757-8881, ext. 51.
What you fail to do in research is simply that RESEARCH!!!
Roughly 10% to 15% of lung cancer patients have never smoked, between 20,000 to 30,000 never-smokers are diagnosed with lung cancer in the United States each year.
Approximately 50 percent of all lung cancers (106,500) occur in people who have already quit smoking. Less money is spent on lung cancer research than on research on other cancers. In 2007, the National Cancer Institute estimated it spent only it spent only $1,415 per lung cancer death compared to $13,991 per breast cancer death, $10,945 per prostate cancer death, and $4,952 per colorectal cancer. This is because people like you leave this stigma that somehow we could prevent lung cancer and that we did this to ourselves!! My husband a never smoker was diagnosed with lung cancer stage IV this year, He along with many other have never smoked. Those who did smoke may have quit years before and besides I’d like to see you tell someone with Lung Cancer they did this to themselves even if they did smoke! Noone deserves Lung cancer, not even an ignorant write like you!!
Dear Friends, it is amazing that in such an important date you do not even mention lung cancer screening. remember, the NLST results already show a reduction in mortality with CT screening. CT screening is here to stay. You should mention at least that it “appears” to be beneficial.
regards,
Javier Zulueta, MD
IELCAP PI