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No one deserves to die from lung cancer; not cat lovers, not hipsters, the tattooed, not the one in five patients who has never smoked, or the three in five who have already quit. No one. Lung cancer doesn’t discriminate.
We encourage you to learn more about our campaign. Change your profile picture and help change perceptions. No one deserves lung cancer. No one deserves to die. http://bit.ly/N0IHpA
“Cat lovers deserve to die” is the opening salvo in our national campaign aimed to defeat the stigma and blame associated with lung cancer.
As so many of you know and have felt personally, the biggest obstacle in lung cancer survival has been the common misconception that those who suffer or die from lung cancer deserve their disease because they brought it upon themselves. This couldn’t be further from the truth.
No one deserves to die from lung cancer; not cat lovers, not hipsters, the tattooed, not the one in five patients who has never smoked, or the three in five who have already quit, or the one in five who has been unable to quit. No one.
Breaking down the stigma barrier opens the door for a more constructive public discussion on how to reduce lung cancer’s mortality rate and all the tools are in place to do just that.
Recently, scientists validated CT scanning procedures for those at high risk , which are cost effective and capable of saving tens of thousands of lives each year. There is a bill in Congress specifically addressing lung cancer, and we have thousands of dedicated advocates around the country committed to ending lung cancer’s reign as the leading cause of cancer death.
This campaign, the most far reaching ever conducted around the issue of stigma, is running in 31 markets throughout the United States, including New York, Chicago, San Francisco, Washington, D.C., Boston, Atlanta, Philadelphia, Dallas and New Orleans.
The campaign is on bus shelters, on phone booths, in metro and subway stations, in movie theatres, online and more.
Through the campaign, we hope to inspire a reexamination of long held beliefs and recalibrate attitudes about lung cancer because no one deserves to die.
To view the campaign and get involved, go to http://noonedeservestodie.org. If you see an ad in your area, take a picture next to it and send it to us or upload it to our Facebook or Twitter.
As a lung cancer survivor, supporter or advocate – you are the driving force for change within the lung cancer community.
We developed the Lung Cancer Alliance blog with our fight in mind. We’ll provide timely updates, educational news, and keep you informed on what’s happening here at our offices in DC and with other lung cancer survivors and family members throughout the country and the even the world.
What do we do as an organization? First and foremost, we put the needs of the lung cancer community first. Our vision, and yes, it is a lofty, but achievable one, is to reduce lung cancer mortality by half by the end of the decade and we need your help to make it happen!
Our professional staff provides live support through our suite of support programs and credible information on lung cancer risk, screening, diagnosis and treatment options. Each person who calls or emails LCA receives comprehensive, tailored information, to assist them in making educated decisions throughout their lung cancer journey.
We are based here in Washington, DC to make a fundamental change in public health. We will ensure that there is a comprehensive and coordinated plan put in place to address lung cancer through the Lung Cancer Mortality Reduction Act.
- Laurie Fenton Ambrose