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My wife has lung cancer. Every year, close to 80% more women die from lung cancer than breast cancer.
 
Like more and more lung cancer patients—most of them women—she never smoked. She tells me, "Smoking didn't cause my lung cancer, but its stigma is probably going to kill me."
 
Lung cancer is my own personal sadness, but it is a sadness shared with 225,000 new families every year. Some never smoked, many stopped decades ago, some still smoke today. But what does it matter, really? No one deserves cancer.
 
Please read this website, take the quiz, share your thoughts, and help us spread the truth about this underfunded cancer.
 
Thank you so much.
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While there have been dramatic improvements in survival rates for many other cancers over the past few decades, lung cancer remains a death sentence. The five-year survival rate is stuck at a paltry 15 percent.
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WHAT IS LEADERS OF THE LUNG CANCER FREE WORLD?
Almost a quarter of a million families will receive a lung cancer diagnosis in 2011. They will learn — just as ours did — just how pervasive, devastating and poorly understood the disease is. Leaders was created with one goal in mind: to elevate lung cancer to an issue of urgent national concern.
WHAT YOU DON'T KNOW ABOUT LUNG CANCER BUT SHOULD
80% more women will die from lung cancer than breast cancer this year
More people will die from lung cancer this year than the three next most-deadly cancers combined
One in five women with lung cancer never smoked
While survival rates for other cancers have dramatically improved, the five-year survival rate for lung cancer is stuck at a paltry 15%

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