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Fact Sheet - LUNGevity Foundation

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opportunities. For those interested in taking action to raise awareness about lung cancer and<br />

<strong>LUNGevity</strong>, we offer <strong>LUNGevity</strong> Link UP!<br />

As part of the online resources it offers, the <strong>Foundation</strong> also recently unveiled the Caregiver<br />

Resource Center, which offers emotional support, practical and patient advocacy advice, and<br />

other services for caregivers. It is the first online resource wholly devoted to lung cancer<br />

caregivers.<br />

Events Across the Country<br />

<strong>LUNGevity</strong> has the largest national network of grassroots events aimed at raising money for<br />

life saving lung cancer research and creating awareness about the disease. Dedicated and<br />

passionate volunteers from across the country plan local fundraising events to help <strong>LUNGevity</strong><br />

fund its research program into earlier detection and more effective treatment of lung cancer,<br />

bringing together tens of thousands of lung cancer patients, survivors, families, friends, and<br />

advocates in 19 states and counting to change the course of lung cancer.<br />

<strong>Fact</strong>s About Lung Cancer<br />

• 1 in 14 people in the U.S. will be diagnosed with lung cancer in their lifetime 1<br />

• 226,000 people will be diagnosed with lung cancer in 2012 1<br />

• Approximately 55% of all new lung cancer diagnoses are among people who have<br />

never smoked or have already quit smoking 2,3<br />

• Because there is no widely-available, effective early diagnostic test for lung<br />

cancer, only 15% of people will be diagnosed in the earliest stage, when the<br />

disease is most treatable 1<br />

• Only 16% of all people diagnosed with lung cancer will survive 5 years or more 4<br />

• Lung cancer kills more people than the next four cancers (breast, prostate,<br />

colorectal and pancreatic) combined 1<br />

• Lung cancer kills almost twice as many women as breast cancer, and more than three<br />

times as many men as prostate cancer 1<br />

• There is hope: The 1-year survival rate for lung cancer increased from 37% in<br />

1975-1979 to 43% in 2003-2006, mostly thanks to improvements in treatment 1<br />

• If lung cancer is caught before it spreads, the chance for 5-year survival improves<br />

to 52% 4<br />

Sources: 1 Cancer <strong>Fact</strong>s & Figures 2012. Atlanta: American Cancer Society; 2012. 2 Thun, MJ, et<br />

al. Lung Cancer Occurrence in Never-Smokers: An Analysis of 13 Cohorts and 22 Cancer<br />

Registry Studies. PLOS Medicine, 2008. 5(9): e185. Doi:10.1371/journal.pmed.0050185; 3 Tong, L,<br />

et al. Lung carcinoma in former smokers. Cancer,1996. 78(5): 1004-1010. 4 Howlader N, Krapcho<br />

M, Neyman N, et al. (eds). SEER Cancer Statistics Review, 1975-2008, National Cancer Institute,<br />

Bethesda, MD, www.seer.cancer.gov/csr/1975_2008/, 2011

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