this is what lung cancer looks like. tell your friends.

 each year, lung cancer takes the lives of more women than breast cancer and all gynecological cancers - combined.

432 people die from lung cancer each day.

 lung cancer takes the lives of three times as many men as prostate cancer.

 over 25,000 women who have never smoked will be diagnosed with lung cancer this year.

 lung cancer research is underfunded.  breast cancer research receives more than $25,000 per cancer death.  lung cancer research receives less than $1,500 per cancer death.

 10-15% of new cancer diagnoses are among people who never smoked.

 only 6% of all federal cancer research dollars are spent on lung cancer research, even though it is the leading cause of cancer deaths annually.

 1 in 15 americans will be diagnosed with lung cancer.

 lung cancer can affect anyone, regardless of gender or ethnicity.

i am a nine-year survivor of stage IV non-small cell lung cancer.  i was twenty-six then.  i had never been a smoker.

of those nine years,  i have been in treatment for all but seven months. 

lung cancer research saves lives.

it has saved mine.

the treatments that have gotten me through three recurrences have all been newly-approved by the FDA or in clinical trial status in the time since my diagnosis. 

please share this with the ones you love.

statistics shared here from Lung Cancer Alliance and Lungevity.