Lung Cancer Stigma Cuts Research Funds

Lung cancer stigma cuts research funds
When it comes to advocacy and research funds, the leading cancer killer in the United States – lung cancer – clearly gets short shrift. People with the disease are commonly assumed to have brought it upon themselves by smoking. And the 10 percent to 15 percent of lung cancer patients who never smoked are typically tarred with the same brush. One-tenth of men and one-fifth of women with lung …
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