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Lung Cancer Facts
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- Despite claiming more lives than any other cancer, lung cancer receives
comparatively little research funding.
Approximately $1,200 per lung cancer death was spent in 2001 on research,
compared with:
$11,425 for breast cancer
$ 8,190 for prostate cancer
$ 3,350 for colorectal cancer -Lungcancer.org
- More Americans die each year from lung cancer than from breast, prostate, ovarian
and colorectal cancers combined. - American Cancer Society, Cancer Facts and Figures
2003
- In 2004, an estimated 173,770 people will be newly diagnosed with lung cancer,
and an estimated 160,440 people will die of lung cancer. An estimated 91,930 of these
deaths will be men and an estimated 68,510 will be women. -Lungetivty.org
- Because only 15% of lung cancer cases are diagnosed in the early stages when they
are most curable, a reliable, cost-effective tool for screening could considerably
increase the chances of successful treatment. - National Cancer Institute (NCI)
Factbook
- Every three minutes another person is diagnosed with lung cancer and each hour 18
people will die from it. -American Cancer Society, Cancer Facts and Figures 2003
- Lung cancer kills 85% of newly diagnosed patients within five years. -
lungevity.org
- The survival rate is 49% for cases detected when the disease is localized to the
lung, but only 16% of lung cancers are diagnosed that early. - lungevity.org
- After tobacco smoke, radon gas is the second leading cause of lung cancer.
Exposure to carcinogens (including asbestos, uranium, arsenic and certain petroleum
products) also increases lung cancer risk. - information-on-lung-cancer.com
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