Lung Cancer Alliance Launches Lung Cancer Awareness Month With Third Annual Report Card On Lung Cancer

WASHINGTON -- For the third year in a row, the federal government received failing grades in Lung Cancer Alliance's (LCA) Annual 2007 Report Card, issued today to mark the start of Lung Cancer Awareness Month. Laurie Fenton-Ambrose, President of LCA, said "Lung cancer continues to kill more men and women each year than breast, prostate and colon cancers combined because it continues to be the least funded, the most stigmatized and the only major cancer for which screening is not encouraged, even among those at high risk for the disease." The 2007 Report Card on Lung Cancer grades seven categories to evaluate progress each year on benchmarks that must be met in order to eradicate this disease. The Report is widely di...