Cancer Care

Lung cancer is an escalating epidemic in the United States, accounting for more deaths than breast cancer, colon cancer, and prostate cancer combined.By far, tobacco use is the major culprit of lung cancer. About 90% of lung cancer deaths in men and almost 80% of lung cancer deaths in women are due to smoking, and smokers are 20 times more likely to develop the disease than non-smokers. According to the National Cancer Institute, an estimated 86,220 men and 71,080 women will die from lung cancer...

You don’t often see cancer and good news in the same sentence. But, as helpless as this disease can make us feel, it’s important to note that there is occasionally good news about it. Consider all the progress we’ve made against cancer—particularly over the past few decades. It was 1971 when the U.S. government launched an all-out effort to cure cancer. Announcing the $100 million National Cancer Act that year, President Richard Nixon said, The time has come in America wh...