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Lung cancer kills more women than breast, cervical and ovarian cancers combined and over the past 20 years, lung cancer death rates in women have increased by 42%.

Worse yet, in 2006, lung cancer caused an estimated 162,460 deaths, accounting for 29 percent of all cancer deaths.

All of this and California still devotes very little to lung cancer research that would lead to the development of better early detection and treatment.

Lung cancer survival rates have improved little in the past 35 years.  In 1971, the 5-year survival rate for lung cancer was 13%. Today it’s only 15.5%. Clearly we can and must do better.  Research is urgently needed for effective early detection, protection for people at risk for lung cancer, and for better treatments.

That is why now, more than ever, we need to take action and ask our legislators to protect the Lung Cancer Research bill. If passed, this bill will establish the first ever Lung Cancer Early Detection and Treatment Research Fund.

Will you take a stand for all Californians and take action on the Lung Cancer Research bill?