• One in 16 people in the US will be diagnosed with lung cancer in their lifetime.1
• More than 228,000 people in the US will be diagnosed with lung cancer this year, with a new diagnosis every 2.3 minutes.1
• 60% to 65% of all new lung cancer diagnoses are among people who have never smoked or are former smokers.1,2,3,4,5
• 10% to 15% of new lung cancer cases are among never-smokers.1,2,3,4,5
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• Lung cancer accounts for 13% of all new cancer diagnoses but 24% of all cancer deaths.1
• Lung cancer is the leading cause of cancer death, regardless of gender or ethnicity, taking about 156,000 American lives each year.1
• More lives are lost to lung cancer than to colorectal, breast, and prostate cancers combined.1
• Lung cancer has been the leading cancer killer of women since 1987, killing almost 1.5 times as many women as breast cancer.6
• Only 19% of all people diagnosed with lung cancer will survive 5 years or more, BUT if it’s caught before it spreads, the chance for 5-year survival improves dramatically.1
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• Only 6% of federal government dollars spent on cancer research are spent on lung cancer research.7

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 Burns, DM. Primary prevention, smoking, and smoking cessation: Implications for future trends in lung cancer prevention. Cancer, 2000; 89:2506-2509.

 Thun, MJ, et al. Lung Cancer Occurrence in Never-Smokers: An Analysis of 13 Cohorts and 22 Cancer Registry Studies. PLOS Medicine, 2008: 5(9):e185. doi: 10.1371/journal.pmed.0050185.

 Satcher D, Thompson TG, Kaplan, JP. Women and Smoking: A Report of the Surgeon General. Nicotine Tob Res, 2002; 4(1): 7-20.

  Park ER, et al. A snapshot of smokers after lung and colorectal cancer diagnosis. Cancer, 2012; 12:3153-3164. doi: 1002/cncr.26545; http://oninelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/cncr.26545/abstract.

Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. National Center for Health Statistics. CDC WONDER On-line Database, compiled from Compressed Mortality File 1999-2014 Series 20 No. 2T, 2016.

Estimates of Funding for Various Research, Condition, and Disease Categories (RCDC). National Institutes of Health website. https://report.nih.gov/categorical_spending.aspx. Table Published:May 18, 2018. Accessed April 17, 2019.

Taken from Lungevity.org