Hello Tracy,

Yikes! We're sorry! We hope you can forgive us. Typos happen. (Thanks to Simon for pointing it out.)

In our recent newsletter, we had a typo. We accidentally forgot a ZERO! We wrote that approximately over 3000 nonsmokers die from lung cancer each year, but actually that number is closer to 30,000!

Let us explain: According to NCI (National Cancer Institute) approximately 219,000 people will be diagnosed with lung cancer in 2009. According to American Cancer Society and other publications, approximately 10-20% of those diagnosed are nonsmokers. If we look at the median of 15% that would be 32,850. With a 5-year survival rate of 15% overall for lung cancer, that would be 27,922 nonsmoker deaths expected from lung cancer in 2009.

p.s. We don't normally send 2 newsletters in one day, but we didn't want you to be spreading the wrong information. We promise to triple check our facts in the future.

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Discover the Truth About Lung Cancer featured nonsmoker stories for July:

Katherine Wilson, age 23 and a nursing student at UNC- Chapel Hill, was misdiagnosed with a walking pneumonia.

Charmaine Atkinson, age 46 - wife and mother of two discovered she had lung cancer while watching "Jaws" on her couch!

Kate MacIntyre, age 52, thought she was suffering symptoms of menopause when she was diagnosed with lung cancer.

Read their full stories here.