Annual Report 2010 & 2011 Highlights - Lung Cancer Alliance

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National Awareness Program
Shawna Warner doing My Team
Lung Love at Colorado triatholon.
Team Lung Love debut in
Providence, Rhode Island with
LCA New England Chair and
survivor Diane Legg and friends.
Implementing a marketing and communications
strategy that will change the face of lung cancer
and help eliminate stigma.
2010
Team Lung Love www.teamlunglove.org Launched nationwide endurance
sports training program focused exclusively on raising awareness and support for
lung cancer. Marathoners, novice runners and walkers of all levels and ages –
including survivors and their loved ones -- participated in official charity team
debuts at the Cox Rhode Races in Providence, Rhode Island; Philadelphia
Marathon and Half Marathon; and the 22nd Annual Freihofer's Community Walk
in Albany, NewYork with more than 100 inaugural team members raising
$124,000 for support, education and advocacy programs.
My Team Lung Love – launched “run anywhere, run anytime” companion
program with more than 70 participants joining established endurance events of
their choosing across the country, raising more than $25,000.
Out of the Shadows:Women & Lung Cancer – presented in
partnership with Brigham and Women’s Hospital at a Capitol Hill
briefing with lung cancer survivors, caregivers, public health leaders,
legislators, their staff and members of the media.The report brings
lung cancer out of the shadows by providing the most current and
comprehensive overview of women’s biggest unmet public health
challenge - lung cancer – with one out of five women diagnosed
today as never-smokers.
Team Lung Love debut in
Albany with LCA-NewYork
co-chairs Tiffany Festo-
Tokarchuk, Holly Michaelson
and Phyllis Goldstein (from
left to right).