As the pioneer organization in lung cancer research, LUNGevity Foundation is the leading private provider of research funding for the number one cancer killer.

Since 2001, the LUNGevity Foundation has committed to co-funding more than $3.4M in innovative lung cancer research projects at the foremost cancer programs in America.

 

Lung Cancer Facts

1) Lung cancer kills more people each year than breast, prostate, colorectal, and pancreatic cancers combined.

2) More than one in seven Americans will develop lung cancer.

3) Lung cancer is the leading cause of cancer deaths in the United States. Lung cancer accounts for approximately 29% of all cancer deaths.

4) Lung cancer kills more than 3 times as many men each year than prostate cancer.

5) Lung cancer kills more women each year than breast cancer.

6) Lung cancer kills 84% of newly diagnosed patients within five years.

7) The survival rate is 49% for cases detected when the disease is localized to the lung, but only 16% of lung cancers are diagnosed that early.

8) In 2007, an estimated 213,380 people will be newly diagnosed with lung cancer, and an estimated 160,390 people will die of lung cancer. An estimated 89,510 of these deaths will be men and an estimated 70,880 will be women.

9) In 2007, approximately $1,633 will be spent on research per lung cancer death, compared with:

$13,471 per breast cancer death
$11,298 per prostate cancer death
$4,774 per colorectal cancer death

10) Approximately 50% of the people diagnosed with lung cancer have never smoked or are former smokers.

1) Cancer Facts & Figures 2007, American Cancer Society, Inc., p.4
2) Ibid., p.14
3) Ibid., p.13
4) Ibid., p.4
5) Ibid., p.4
6) Ibid., p.14
7) Ibid., p.14
8) Ibid., p.4
9) Fact Book (2007), National Cancer Institute, U.S. Department of Health and Human Services: http://www.cancer.gov/cancertopics/factsheet/NCI/research-funding; and Cancer Facts & Figures 2007, American Cancer Society, Inc., p.4
10) Pass, Harvey I. et al. Lung Cancer Principles and Practice, 2nd edition. Philadelphia: Lippincott Williams and Wilkins, 2000.