Facts About Lung Cancer

Lung cancer is the leading cause of cancer deaths in the United States.

Lung cancer causes 30% of all cancer deaths.

Lung cancer will kill more people this year than: breast cancer, prostate cancer, colon cancer, liver cancer, kidney cancer, and melanoma… combined.

Lung cancer will kill nearly twice as many women as breast cancer this year.

Lung cancer will kill 3 times as many men as prostate cancer this year.

Over 50% of new lung cancer cases will be diagnosed at a very late state – Stage 3b or 4 – and only 5%of them will live for 5 years.

10-15% of new lung cancer cases have never smoked.

While the survival rate for most cancers have dramatically improved, the underfunding of lung cancer research has kept its survival rate almost as low as it was in 1971. The 5-year survival rate for prostate cancer is 99%; breast cancer is 88%; colon cancer is 63%; lung cancer stands at only15%.

* Information from the Lung Cancer Alliance