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November is Lung Cancer Awareness Month!
Lung Cancer Awareness Month (LCAM) is a national campaign dedicated to increasing attention to lung cancer issues. By organizing rallies, distributing educational material, holding fund-raising events, contacting Congress, and speaking to the media, those involved in LCAM bring much-needed support and attention to a disease that each year kills more people than breast, prostate, colon and pancreas cancers combined.
Here's how you can participate!
Raise Awareness
You can raise awareness about lung cancer where you live in many ways during November 2007:
* Sponsor an event to bring your community together around lung cancer.
* Gain official attention for lung cancer with petitions, proclamations, and more!
* Distribute LCA's Public Service Announcement to local media
* Make your voice heard by the media.
* Set up table(s) in your local hospital/medical center/clinic and distribute LCA and LCAM materials.
* Hang up LCA posters in clinics, community centers, churches, and other high traffic areas to remind people that No One Deserves Lung Cancer!
Make LCAM official where you live!
Join Maine, New Jersey and others by making LCAM official in all 50 states. View our interactive map to get statistics for your state.
* Write a letter to your governor and send a sample proclamation.
* FInd your Governor's name and address at www.50states.com.
* Make LCAM official in perpetuity through a bill working with your state representatives. Please let us know which state you live in.
Sponsor an Event
In past years, advocates have coordinated runs, walks, and dances to raise funds and awareness during LCAM. An example was the Race for Breath 2006. You too can hold a fundraiser!
Make your voice heard!
LCAM is an opportune time to make your voice heard in your local newspaper by writing a letter to the editor.
Got an idea for LCAM?
We’d be happy to hear about it!
