I am amazed how many people are affected. I read that 1 in 3 people will be diagnosed with cancer at some point in their life! I hope that Calem and his generation will not have to worry about cancer as much as we do. ~ Laurianne Koning
This blog is dedicated to the memory of Laurianne, who died from non-smokers lung cancer in October 2005. Her hope was that a cure would be found so that others would not suffer from this disease.
The purpose of this blog is to share my sister's story with the world and help raise her son to be the person she wanted him to be. Laurianne died of non-smoking related lung cancer on October 22, 2005. She was only 25 years old, and I miss her every day.
This blog is written by Laurianne's father, hankon, and Laurianne's sister, Lynda. We hope to educate people about this disease by sharing our feelings about our loss and information about lung cancer.
November is Lung Cancer Awareness month. Many people know October is Breast Cancer Awareness month. Not quite as many know Novemer is Lung Cancer Awareness month. Before Nancy Brinker (Susan Komen's sister, Founder of the Susan B. Komen Foundation) started spreading the word about breast cancer, it was not as survivable a disease. Now you can buy products in the store that will support a breast cancer cause.
Like Nancy, one of the ways we can share the word about lung cancer is to tell people about it. Right now, the disease is only 5% survivable. It doesn't matter if you smoked all your life or never picked up a cigarette. That is a very low and scary number. One day, I hope to see lung cancer as being 80% survivable, like breast cancer. Please consider adding this code to your side bar. If you do not want the image center aligned, just removed the
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