- Anyone with lungs can get lung cancer.
- 1 in 16 Americans will be diagnosed with lung cancer.
- Every 2.2 minutes, someone is diagnosed with lung cancer.
- More than 238,000 people in the US will be diagnosed this year.
- Only 21% of people will be diagnosed with lung cancer in the earliest stage when it is most treatable.
- Despite being the leading cause of cancer death, lung cancer receives only 6% of federal research dollars.
2024-09-30