VISION
Increase lung cancer education by advocating and supporting:
- prevention strategies;
- provincially supported lung cancer screening programs;
- research into early diagnosis;
- treatment and support for those individuals suffering from both the harsh medical implications of the diagnosis and the stigmata associated with it.
If you have lungs you can get lung cancer.
OBJECTIVES
- Raise funds for each organizations we have chosen;
- Increase visibility and continue to raise awareness;
- Stimulate people’s desire to donate and support lung cancer research and all it’s facets.
A WORTHY CAUSE
- In Canada approximately 29,000 people will be diagnosed this year and of those just under 4,900 will be alive in 5 years.
- Every 18 minutes someone is diagnosed and every 25 minutes someone dies.
- Approximately 2,200 people will be diagnosed with lung cancer in Alberta with over 1,700 dying this year.
- Stigma, myth, lack of awareness and lack of funding are keeping these numbers so high. It is very likely you will come in contact with someone affected in some way with lung cancer.
- Lung Cancer is the least funded (less than 7%) and most misunderstood of all the cancers.
- There is nothing sexy about us. We continuously fight against several elements: stigma, myth and lack of awareness by the general public.
- One thing I will say: lung cancer does not discriminate affecting people from all walks of life
