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Lung Cancer Alliance reports number of lung cancer cases increases

Published in Cancer Weekly, February 13th, 2007

The Lung Cancer Alliance (LCA) expressed disappointment with the American Cancer Society's (ACS) portrayal of lung cancer in its recently released publication, CA: A Cancer Journal for Clinicians, and its companion piece, Cancer Facts & Figures.

While ACS points out that "cancer deaths are down for a second year," this is not true for lung cancer, which accounts for 30% of all cancer deaths.

"Again, the American Cancer Society would have the lung cancer community believe that significant progress has been made to reduce lung cancer's impact on mortality, when in fact little, if any, has occurred," said Laurie Fenton, president of Lung Cancer...

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