Lung Cancer Awareness Month

Now that everyone has put their pink shirts away, let's remember that Lung Cancer kills more women daily than Breast and Ovarian cancer combined.

An average of 193 women die each day of lung cancer, one every 7 minutes.

Yes, you read that right....

Lung cancer is the leading cause of cancer death among women. It is also the leading cause of cancer death in men.

In 2018, an estimated 70,500 women will die of lung cancer, 25% of all cancer deaths in women. Of the men and women with lung cancer, 17.9% are never-smokers.

Lung cancer in male and female never-smokers is the sixth leading cause of all cancer deaths.

Approximately two-thirds of never-smokers diagnosed with lung cancer are women. Of never-smokers, women are twice as likely as men to get lung cancer.

Recent studies indicate that the rate of never-smoking lung cancer is increasing.

The five-year survival rate for women with lung cancer remains low at 21%.

Despite a higher number of annual deaths, lung cancer receives only $1,831 per death in research funding from the National Institutes of Health, the least funded of the major cancers affecting women.