Tuesday, June 3, 2008

Please join us in the fight of cancer






Lung cancer continues to be the single biggest cancer killer. In 2007, an estimated 160,390 will die of lung cancer; more people than breast, prostate, colon, liver, melanoma, and kidney cancers combined. Few people are even aware that lung cancer kills three times as many men as prostate cancer, and nearly twice as many women as breast cancer. Prostate cancer has a 99 percent 5-year survival rate and breast cancer has an 88 percent 5-year survival rate.
Over 50 percent of new lung cancer cases will be diagnosed at a very late stage—Stage IIIb or IV. Lung cancer has a 5-year survival rate of only 15 percent. That means that 85 percent of people who get lung cancer die within five years.
THIS MUST CHANGE.
We, the undersigned, call on the President of the United States and the Congress to make early detection, treatment, and chemoprevention of lung cancer a national public health priority.
We also call for adequate new funding to increase the overall 5-year survival rate to at least 50 percent by 2015.

Please sign this petition. There needs to be a change. Please help to save someones life, that someone may very well be your, mother, father, sister, brother, daughter, son, or friend. It is too late for Dad, but maybe not for your loved one. After seeing what this cancer does first hand, there needs to be changes.

And please go support cancer research by buying this song for $.99. There is a link to I-tunes from this page. Maybe Tonight, Maybe Tomorrow is dedicated to the millions of people affected by cancer. Those who we've lost and those who survive, fight, volunteer, support, research, raise awareness, give and inspire.
The song debuted on May 19 at the LIVESTRONG Gala and is now available through iTunes. 100% of the proceeds from the sale of this song benefit the LAF.
http://www.livestrong.org/site/c.khLXK1PxHmF/b.2662157/k.BC61/Maybe_Tonight_Maybe_Tomorrow.htm


I promised dad I would help spread the word on more cancer research. So more people would not die early; before they have hade a chance to live life to the fullest. So please, please sign the petition and buy this song. $.99 is a small price to pay, to give someone else the chance tosee their children get married or their grandchildren graduate. Thanks

"The future depends on what we do in the present."


- Mahatma Gandhi




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