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Debi wrote a good post today on
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People who eat lots of soy-based foods have better lung function and are less likely to develop the smoking-associated lung disease COPD (Chronic Obstructive Pulmonary Disease) say researchers.

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Representing the Bonnie J. Addario Lung Cancer Foundation’s New Generation of Crusaders, James Lichtenthal Traveled to New York City on March 5, 2009 for the American Cancer Society’s Awareness Day Last Thursday, three years almost to the date of his aunt Dana Reeve’s untimely death from Lung Cancer, James Lichtenthal, 18, boarded a 5:30 a.m. plane to New York City from Boston, carrying with him expectations of hope and change to more than 200 high school students and guests gathered at a rally to raise awareness for all cancers held at Fiorello LaGuardia High School.

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Debi wrote an interesting post today on
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Why are there no lapel ribbons for lung cancer? There simply aren’t enough survivors to amass a movement.
Every day, about 500 Americans are diagnosed with lung cancer. The disease surpassed breast cancer in 1985 as the largest killer of women.
With few early symptoms and no techniques for early detection, lung cancer is rarely caught before reaching stage 4. Five years after diagnosis, only 15 percent of lung cancer victims are still alive, a statistic that has been static for 40 years.
Also, there is a stigma attached, because lung cancer is seen as a smoker’s disease. On that point, it’s time for an update.
“Sixty percent of the newly diagnosed lung cancer cases are either people who never smoked or people who quit smoking decades ago,” says Bonnie Addario, a lung cancer survivor and founder of the Bonnie J. Addario Lung Cancer Foundation, based in San Francisco.
“Very often, people with a chronic [...]

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nospam@example.com (Clear the Smoke) wrote an interesting post today on
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Meet Katie Brown and Bonnie Addario. Though they live across the country and have never met, (Katie is a mom of small kids in Dallas, TX and Bonnie is a former CEO and grandmother of three who lives near San Francisco), they’ve both been blindsided by the deadliest of all cancers – lung cancer. Katie lost her father less than a year after he was diagnosed. Bonnie is celebrating her three-year anniversary from escaping the usually fateful reality of lung cancer. She’s one of the rare ones who wear the badge of survivor.
Both women discovered the hard way that there weren’t a lot of places, if any, to turn to find “someone who has been there” during their early days when their worlds were rocked by the diagnosis of this killer cancer.

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Debi wrote an interesting post today on
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Mary Lou Fisher has never smoked, but she has lung cancer.Fisher, 68, represents an unsuspecting and often misunderstood face of this deadly disease.
”Lots of people (think) I have breast cancer. That’s kind of the common thing among women,” Fisher said. “So, when I tell them it’s lung cancer, I say, ‘But I never smoked a day in my life.’ You just want to get that out there, so they can’t blame it on that.”
For far too long, she said, there has been a stigma attached to lung cancer.
”There’s a ‘You smoked so you must have deserved it’ kind of attitude. Nobody deserves cancer,” she said.

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Debi wrote an interesting post today on
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Lung cancer is the number one cancer killer in America, taking more lives than breast, colorectal, and prostate cancers combined. Research holds the key to knocking lung cancer off its #1 spot. Today’s lung cancer research arena, while under-funded by the federal government, is nonetheless yielding many promising diagnostic and therapeutic approaches that need more time and funding to ensure their success. Research in the fields of lung cancer prevention, screening, and treatment shows great promise in changing the future for lung cancer patients.

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While lung cancer in smokers and former smokers is the biggest cancer killer by far, lung cancer in people who have never smoked is — by itself — the sixth biggest cancer killer in the United States.
“Most people are not aware that lung cancer among non-smokers has such an enormous impact,” said Lung Cancer Alliance President Laurie Fenton-Ambrose today. The heavy burden of lung cancer in non-smokers contradicts the common belief that lung cancer is a disease that strikes only smokers.

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nospam@example.com (Clear the Smoke) wrote an interesting post today on
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An unsettling fact about lung cancer is that not even clean living can guarantee a free pass. A significant proportion of cases — 10 to 15 percent — occur in people who never smoked, and just in the United States, 16,000 to 24,000 a year die.

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Three TV networks, cancer research advocates and more than 60 celebrities from music, sports, TV and film made history Friday night with a live telethon that aired simultaneously on NBC, ABC and CBS.

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nospam@example.com (Clear the Smoke) wrote an interesting post today on
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We need more public education that smoking does not cause all lung cancers. Because of the stigma of smoking attached to lung cancer, it receives less funding than any other cancer and is the No. 1 cancer killer. Even our armed services helps fund research for pancreatic cancer, breast cancer and prostate cancer but not to lung cancer research.

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