RandyW Posted March 8, 2006 Share Posted March 8, 2006 Kudos to CNN I think for devoting four hours of programming to Lung Cancer. Paula anderson, Larry King and Heidi who filled in for Anderson Cooper did a wonderful job of explaining this disease to a lot of people. Spent half the night crying listening to and relating to a lot of things people said last night. They really did do an exceptional job of putting together a very informative 4 hours of programming on sshort notice but I was glad to see somebody give Dana more than just a 15 minute tribute. KUDOS AND THANK YOU TO CNN. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Donna G Posted March 8, 2006 Share Posted March 8, 2006 Right now I am on CBS, The Early Show, and women with lung cancer who never smoked is the topic this morning also. Dana you sure jumped in quickly from heaven ! The women is saying we must find ways to diagnose early and find a cure! Donna G Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
cindi o'h Posted March 8, 2006 Share Posted March 8, 2006 Thank you for posting this, Randy. I stayed up for the whole thing. There were some very powerful and informative statements made. I especially liked what Lance Armstrong had to say about Lung Cancer. Dana Reeve is making a difference as an advocate for earlier detection, government funding, and raising awareness on many fronts. Cindi o'h Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Joe B Posted March 8, 2006 Share Posted March 8, 2006 Hey All, Lets not forget the Men who never smoked as well, like Rich & Myself. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
RandyW Posted March 8, 2006 Author Share Posted March 8, 2006 I heard several People including Lance taklk about the Funding Cuts that are headed to NCI for research made by congress last night. The President of the Lung Cancer Alliance talked about cuts a few times when she coulfd get it in during several interviews even this morning on the Big 3 Networks. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Prem Posted March 9, 2006 Share Posted March 9, 2006 Hi, I also watched the coverage on CNN as many of you have. While discussions covered many facets of the disease that are too well known to us cancer survivors and the care-givers, the points that grabbed my attention were as follows: - Lung Cancer gets the lowest research funding than any other cancer but kills more people every year. More die from lung cancer every year than died in Tsunami! - Funding is lowest because there are so few survivors who are actively lobbying the powers in the Govt and the private sectors agressively. - Several leading doctors on the programs stated that we are very close to finding cure for lung cancer due to human genome projects etc., but Congress has cut funding for many research programs at this critical point. The doctors making these point were heads of Cleveland Clinic and Johns Hopkins Cancer Center among others. While I am saddened by Dana Reeve's death, we must work together and collectively launch a massive public awareness campaign to focus wider attention on this disease at this time. Thousands of lung cancer patients, survivors and caregivers come together regularly on this list and on many others to discuss pertinent subjects to survive. I have the following suggestion in light of Dana Reeve tragedy: Let's join our voices and launch a national campaign similar to the one launched by Bono to focus attention on World poverty last year( www.one.org ) We have several excellent advocates out there in LCSC, lung cancer alliance, lung cancer online, lungevity foundation, joan's legacy etc, just to name a few. All are doing admirable work. We, however, still, lack the visibility and the scale to get broad national attention and the funding increasd. CNN has given us a headstart here, but we need to ride the momentum. So, can we request all of these groups to come together to launch a national campaign to deliver 1 million signatures to President Bush to provide increased funding for lung cancer research as a start? As a former CEO of technology businesses, I am willing to commit my time and resources to support this cause. If you share my passion on this subject, let's talk. Prem Chawla Diagnosed NSCLC May 2004 Lobectomy July 2004 ( stage 3A) Mets to bone Sept 2004 ( stage 4 ) Chemo (one cycle ) not effective Iressa/Zometa Oct-Dec'04 - effective - stable Tarceva/Zometa Dec-current - more effective currently NED and in good health Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
karen335 Posted March 9, 2006 Share Posted March 9, 2006 Prem, What are your suggestions and where do we start. You be our lead person, please. I am sure we will have many followers, just lead the way... Dx'd 3/2003 and have had two brain surgeries for mets. I am so jazzed to keep this fight going BIG time and WIN!!!! Shame Oprah, Letterman , Leno, Ellen, Marth and others are so blindsided and afraid to address this issue. Their ratings would go through the roof. People are curious, but it takes the BIG guys to expose the facts, NOT the NEWS MEDIA... Karen Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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