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11:34:27 am on November 12, 2007 | # |
From ThoughtBubbles.org: “There is no media hoopla about lung cancer, even though lung cancer kills more people than breast, prostate, and colon cancer combined.” Yvonne is right; last month we saw a flurry of pink ribbons. How many people know the color of the “lung cancer awareness” ribbon? (answer: clear, to signify that lung cancer is an invisible cancer). Lung cancer is often invisible to patients because they do not experience symptoms until relatively late in the disease, which is one of the reasons why lung cancer can be so deadly. Lung cancer is often invisible to the public because (and I speculate) of at least two reasons: 1) a stigma that lung cancer is “a smoker’s disease” when in fact, lung cancer has killed many non-smokers, men and women alike, and 2) lung cancer does not boast as many “survivors” who can later become vocal advocates the way breast cancer does.