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One argument you may hear against health care reform concerns cancer survival rates. The United States has higher cancer survivor rates than countries with national health care systems, we’re told. Doesn’t this mean we should keep what we’ve got and not change it?
Certainly cancer survival rates are a critical issue for people suffering from the deadly lung cancer mesothelioma. So let’s look at this claim and see if there is any substance to it.
First, it’s important to understand that “cancer survival rate” doesn’t mean the rate of people who are cured of a cancer. The cancer survival rate is the percentage of people who survive a certain type of cancer for a specific amount of time, usually five years after diagnosis.

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The Mayor of the City of Cairo, Illinois has issued the following proclamation relative to November being Lung Cancer Awareness Month.

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ANDY King describes himself as “no long-distance runner”.
Yet in the last two years the dad-of-two has twice tackled the Bupa Great North Run, and on Sunday he will embark on his first full marathon in New York.
The 35-year-old, who is originally from Thornaby, is runing in memory of his late wife, Lisa.
She lost her battle with lung cancer in April 2007, aged just 34, leaving behind a doting husband and two young children, Theo and Libby, now aged five and three.

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The doctors told Susan Smedley Gerber that her lung cancer wasn’t caused by smoking but in many ways it didn’t matter. She found herself facing the same stigma and same reactions that thousands of lung cancer patients fight in addition to their cancer.

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Thousands laced up their sneakers Sunday morning. It was a chance to get some exercise and battle lung disease as runners and walkers took on the 2009 Corporate Cup…

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The women are characters in island author Nancy Thayer’s ultra-popular book “The Hot Flash Club,” which was published in 2003, and met with such reader enthusiasm that Thayer has since published three sequels to the novel. Her characters will come to life at The Chicken Box tonight when Seaside Shakespeare actors will perform the roles at a benefit for lung cancer research.

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周日在三藩市金門公園舉行了一場為肺癌醫學研究籌款的5公里路跑/健走活動，曾被診斷只有9個月可活、但成功抗癌約3年的灣區華裔癌症病友王意平組隊參與，剛接受完放射治療的她身體仍然虛弱，由子女代替母親跑完全程，最後籌得約3500元，全數捐作肺癌研究經費。
居住在波羅阿多的王意平2006年診斷出患有肺癌，當時醫師告訴她立即展開化療也只有9個月～1年的壽命，一度因此相當消沉的王意平後在親友與宗教力量支持下，逐漸振作精神，在史丹福大學醫療中心接受化療並參與新藥Avastin的臨床試驗。3年過去了，王意平的病況讓醫護人員感到振奮，她曾受邀與開發治療癌症藥物的Genentech生技公司高層會面，並在史丹福創立了一個肺癌支援小組，且積極參與教會活動。
王意平表示，自己在一周前才得知美國肺癌基金會舉行的5公里路跑/健走籌款活動，當下立即決定組織隊伍參與，「社會大眾對於肺癌的認知、對癌友的關懷都有待我們一起透過這樣的活動來提升。」她表示，社會大眾對於肺癌常存在誤解，就是患者多是因為自己的抽煙習慣才會罹癌，事實上許多病患一輩子沒有抽過煙，像她自己就是最好的例子。
王意平表示，不像乳癌研究經費充足，政府撥給肺癌的研究經費只有乳癌相關研究的1/10，她表示，追根究底都是因為肺癌患者因為初期毫無症狀，被診斷出時都已經接近末期，換句話說，肺癌患者存活的時間不長，又需要接受化療，身心狀況都讓他們無法組織起來向社會大眾或政府當局爭取權益。
事實上，王意平今年6月接受電腦斷層掃描時，醫師發現她的腦中有數個小腫瘤，隨即展開全腦放射治療，因此在周日（2日）活動當天，她的身體仍然相當虛弱，無法行走太久，她的子女代替媽媽完成全程。

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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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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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The Roy Castle Lung Cancer Foundation is calling on all Merseyside businesses to take part in a corporate contest being dubbed the £50 Challenge.
The charity is challenging twenty local businesses to see how much they can raise for the Foundation with a start up.
One thousand pounds was donated by an anonymous local business to get the idea off the ground.
Each business has three months to grow the initial £50 contribution from the charity that launches on March 3rd at the Jurys Inn in Liverpool City Centre.
The challenge ends on June 3rd with an awards ceremony on June 18th.

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