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Comprehensive resources include a medically vetted and patient-centric website, a toll-free HELPLine for support, the International Lung Cancer Survivorship Conference, and an easy-to-use Clinical Trial Finder, among other tools. All of these programs are to achieve our vision—a world where no one dies of lung cancer. LUNGevity Foundation is proud to be a four-star Charity Navigator organization.
Please visit www.LUNGevity.org to learn more.
About Family Reach
Family Reach is a national nonprofit organization dedicated to eradicating the financial barriers that accompany a cancer diagnosis. Working with more than 400 top-tier hospitals and cancer centers nationwide, Family Reach provides immediate financial assistance, education, and navigation to families before they hit critical breaking points. By working through hospital social workers, their efficient, solutions-driven model bridges the gap between hospital and home and quickly provides the vital support families need to stay afloat. Family Reach's innovative and collaborative multi-pronged solution is designed to improve the patient's financial experience during cancer treatment, manage debt and household material hardship, and maintain access to treatment.
For more information about Family Reach, please visit www.familyreach.org. Follow @FamilyReach on Facebook, Instagram, and Twitter.
About Lung Cancer in the US
• About 1 in 16 Americans will be diagnosed with lung cancer in their
lifetime.
• More than 235,000 people in the US will be diagnosed with lung cancer
this year.
• About 60%-65% of all new lung cancer diagnoses are among people
who have never smoked or are former smokers.
• Lung cancer takes more lives than the next three leading cancers
(colorectal, breast, and prostate) combined.
• Only 21% of all people diagnosed with lung cancer will survive 5 years
or more, BUT if it's caught before it spreads, the chance of 5-year survival
improves dramatically.
SOURCE LUNGevity Foundation
Related Links
http://www.lungevity.org
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