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LINDA'S LEGACY FOUNDATION
PO Box 2431
Ponte Vedra, FL 32004-2431
The Linda's Legacy Foundation is a non-profit organization
founded to increase lung cancer awareness, support research for early detection and assist victims of lung cancer with special
needs.
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The Facts
About Lung Cancer
Lung Cancer is
the World's Most Lethal Disease, and the #1 Cancer Killer in the United States • In 2008, approximately 162,000 Americans died of lung cancer. • Lung cancer will account for 15% of all new cancers
diagnoses, but 29% of all cancer deaths this year. • More Americans die from lung cancer each year than colon, breast, pancreatic and prostate
cancers combined.
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| JoNell Thatcher (1938 - 2009) |
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| Wesley Cowart (1975 - 2008) |
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| Linda Paul-Skeeles (1950 - 2005) |
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Lung Cancer is a “Contemporary
Epidemic in Women” & Their #1 Cancer Killer • Lung cancer accounts for 1 of 4 cancer deaths among women, killing more women each year than
breast, uterine and ovarian cancers combined. • The rate of lung cancer among women has risen 60% since 1990. • 80% of all nonsmokers diagnosed with lung cancer are women.
Lung Cancer doesn’t care if
you’re a smoker or not! •
20,000 – 25,000 newly diagnosed lung cancer victims never smoked cigarettes - and these cases are on the rise.
• Over 60% of newly diagnosed lung cancer victims
are former smokers or never smoked cigarettes in their lives.
Lung Cancer Does Not Respond to Most
Existing Therapies • The
5-year survival rate for breast cancer is now 87%, for prostate cancer 99% and for colon cancer 64%. The 5-year survival rate
for lung cancer is 15%.
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Only 16% of lung cancer is being diagnosed at its earliest and most curable stage.
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