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To build public awareness of lung cancer, four national cancer organizations are uniting to launch a nationwide lung cancer awareness campaign. The goals of the campaign are to promote better diagnosis and treatment of the disease, increase research funding, and publicize medical advances and support services that can help reduce the deaths and suffering associated with lung cancer.

Lung cancer is catching up with more and more women. The disease, which is fatal for 86 percent of its victims within five years of a diagnosis, is now the leading cause of cancer death among women. Good Housekeeping article.

Are you or a loved one suffering from terminal cancer? This page contains some pertinent poems and commentary about what it means to be sick and to die well.

Years of attention paid to young women by tobacco marketers have yielded gruesome dividends, researchers said.

Women who smoke the same amount as men are twice as likely to get lung cancer.

FAQ answers questions like: how common is long cancer in women? Can I develop lung cancer if I don't smoke? What is my risk for lung cancer if I smoke?

Medical journal summarizes the current situation.

Recent research finds that tobacco smoke exposure that causes lung cancer includes both personal smoking and secondhand smoke.

Recent research confirms that cigarettes cause more lung cancer in women.

From article in Washington Post, 10/27/1998.

"Law and Order" star S. Epatha Merkerson speaks about lung cancer awareness, after the death of two close friends to the disease.

A report in the Journal of the National Cancer Institute gives weight to an unproven theory that women may be more vulnerable than men to the cancer-causing substances in tobacco smoke.