Beanie Posted February 3, 2006 Share Posted February 3, 2006 I found this on the ALCASE website - thought you all might find it interesting.... FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE February 2, 2006 Contact: 202-225-3026 Gail Gitcho/Press Secretary **MEDIA ADVISORY*** Shaw to Host Lung Cancer Media Roundtable Washington, D.C. – Florida Congressman Clay Shaw (R-FL) invites health care reporters to a media round table in his office on Tuesday, February 7 at 4:00pm to discuss the first National Report Card on Lung Cancer. Congressman Shaw, a lung cancer survivor, will be joined by Laurie Fenton, President of the Lung Cancer Alliance, the leading lung cancer advocacy organization headquartered in Washington, DC. "Lung cancer was the number one cancer killer when Congress passed the National Cancer Act in 1971 and it still is. Lung cancer will kill three times as many men this year as prostate cancer and nearly twice as many women as breast cancer,” Shaw said. "There has been a troubling increase in young women in their thirties and forties who never smoked now being diagnosed and over hundred thousand boomers will get lung cancer this year and that number will grown as the boomers age,” Shaw said. "Unfortunately the mindset of some in the public health community has been that lung cancer is a "preventable" disease that warrants only tobacco cessation funding. Obviously when over 60% of new lung cancer cases are being diagnosed in men and women who never smoked or who quit smoking, many of them decades ago, that approach alone is not working." "We must address the entire disease as a public health priority and put much more effort on earlier detection and better treatments," he said. Details for the press event are as follows: 1236 Longworth House Office Building at 4:00pm February 7, 2006. For details or inquiries please contact Gail Gitcho at 202-225-3026. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Fay A. Posted February 3, 2006 Share Posted February 3, 2006 Thanks for sharing this! Wish we had a FAX number so we could send our individual thanks to Rep. Shaw for doing this. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Geri Posted February 3, 2006 Share Posted February 3, 2006 Fay I just checked his web site and here's the Fax # 202-225-8398 Unfortunately there didn't seem to be a way to email unless you live in his district - need the extra 4 numbers of the zip code. Geri Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
glo Posted February 3, 2006 Share Posted February 3, 2006 You can get the additional four digits of your zip code at www.usps.gov. Click "Find Zip Code" on the top bar. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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