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WASHINGTON, June 8 /PRNewswire-USNewswire/ -- Lung Cancer Alliance (LCA), the only national non-profit dedicated to providing support and advocacy for those living with or at risk for lung cancer, announced today the launching of the first open access website for CT scans and clinical data donated by patients, called Give a Scan, that will increase and accelerate research for lung cancer screening, diagnosis, treatment and drug development. LCA President & CEO Laurie Fenton Ambrose...

Congressman Harold Rogers (R-5th) and John Yarmuth (D-3rd) Join as Co-Sponsors LOUISVILLE, Ky., May 25 /PRNewswire-USNewswire/ -- Today, Lung Cancer Alliance-Kentucky/Southern Indiana (LCA-KY/So.IN) acknowledged Congressman Harold Rogers (R-5th) and John Yarmuth (D-3rd) for their leadership and support in establishing the first ever multi-agency, comprehensive program targeted at lung cancer. Entitled Lung Cancer Mortality Reduction Act, H.R. 2112 authorizes a five year program to reduce...

WASHINGTON, May 20 /PRNewswire-USNewswire/ -- For the second time in a week, Lung Cancer Alliance (LCA) presented the case to Congress on the need for increased funding for lung cancer research. (Logo: http://www.newscom.com/cgi-bin/prnh/20081016/LCALOGO) Today, LCA President and CEO Laurie Fenton-Ambrose testified before a House appropriations subcommittee on the Lung Cancer Research Program within the Department of Defense which LCA helped to have established two years ago. To date...

WASHINGTON, May 6 /PRNewswire-USNewswire/ -- Lung Cancer Alliance President and CEO Laurie Fenton-Ambrose said today that the President's Cancer Panel's report on environmental links to cancer is a strong call to action for more comprehensive research and preventative measures on lung cancer. (Logo: http://www.newscom.com/cgi-bin/prnh/20081016/LCALOGO) The report states that the "true burden of environmentally induced cancer has been grossly underestimated," and lists over 40 cancer causing...

WASHINGTON, April 28 /PRNewswire-USNewswire/ -- Lung Cancer Alliance acknowledges the on-going work by the Office of Disease Prevention (ODP) at the National Institutes of Health (NIH) on lung cancer screening research and the need for people who may be at risk for lung cancer to be well informed. (Logo: http://www.newscom.com/cgi-bin/prnh/20081016/LCALOGO) However, the paper by Jennifer M. Croswell, MD and co-authors published last week in the Annals of Internal Medicine, claiming that...

Calls for appropriate resources to combat the leading cancer killer of women WASHINGTON, April 26 /PRNewswire-USNewswire/ -- For decades, our organizations have stood together to protect the rights of women, including the health and well being of ourselves and our families. As we have done -- and will continue to do -- for the millions of women who have died from breast, ovarian, cervical, uterine and other gynecological cancers, we stand today in support of those women who have been...

Report Shares What Women Need to Know and What Women Can Do WASHINGTON, April 26 /PRNewswire-USNewswire/ -- Lung Cancer Alliance (LCA) hailed today's release of "Out of the Shadows: Women and Lung Cancer," a groundbreaking report issued by the Mary Horrigan Connors Center at Brigham and Women's Hospital, a teaching affiliate of Harvard Medical School. (Logo: http://www.newscom.com/cgi-bin/prnh/20081016/LCALOGO) "This is the wake-up call for women," said Laurie Fenton Ambrose, LCA...

WASHINGTON, April 8, /PRNewswire-USNewswire/ -- Today, Lung Cancer Alliance (LCA) announced new additions to the growing list of supporters joining LCA in its "call to action" to devise a better public health strategy to address the nation's most lethal cancer. (Logo: http://www.newscom.com/cgi-bin/prnh/20081016/LCALOGO) The new national organizations and medical institutions include: Friends of Cancer Research Society for Women's Health Research National Medical Association Men's...

Team Lung Love Inaugural Event at Cox Rhode Races in May WASHINGTON, March 9 /PRNewswire-USNewswire/ -- Lung Cancer Alliance (LCA) announced the launch of Team Lung Love (TLL), an endurance sports training program focused exclusively on raising awareness and support for lung cancer. (Logo: http://www.newscom.com/cgi-bin/prnh/20081016/LCALOGO) Inspired by lung cancer survivors and their families who run road races on behalf of organizations across the country, LCA formed Team Lung Love....

WASHINGTON, Feb. 25 /PRNewswire-USNewswire/ -- A new analysis published this week in the journal Cancer indicates that misperceptions about risk, symptoms and the lethality of lung cancer may play a role in the disproportionately higher incidence and mortality rates for lung cancer among African Americans. (Logo: http://www.newscom.com/cgi-bin/prnh/20081016/LCALOGO) The first author of the report, Christopher Lathan MD, MS, MPH, an oncologist at Dana-Farber and a professor at Harvard...