Friday Facts

Welcome to the first edition of Friday Facts! This series was a suggestion from a member of Free to Breathe Chelmsford's AWESOME planning committee! Each Friday, we will share a little-known fact or two about lung cancer. Today's fact deals with lung cancer's staggering and shocking survival rates.

Lung cancer is a disease that people don't really know much about until they are directly affected by it. One of the National Lung Cancer Partnership's goals is to increase awareness of lung cancer -- we can help by giving our audience the facts about this scary sickness.

Did you know that every year in the United States, over 228,000 people are diagnosed with lung cancer? Additionally, almost 160,000 die of the disease each year.

Survival rates are a grim reality, with only 16% living for more than 5 years after diagnosis. For a shocking visual, check out this graph comparing lung cancer with two other common types (breast and prostate) of cancer diagnoses.

In 2013, no one should have to face a life-threatening diagnosis. It's time to raise awareness about the seriousness of this problem in order to raise money to fund trailblazing research. Cancer makes us feel scared, helpless, angry, hopeless, lost, sick, and sad. Please feel empowered to make a change! Join us in the fight against lung cancer!

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*Note: Facts taken from the National Lung Cancer Partnership Website