Patient Corner

Lung cancer patients and caregivers are invited to join our Find A Cure panel and share your opinions in vital research to help find a cure. Find a Cure Panel will donate $25 to the Beverly Fund for each completed survey. Sign up today!

Advocate Corner 

Here's what YOU can do:

Ask for OPI's new BreatheLIFE color at your salon to help spread awareness.

   
Introduced by Lung Cancer Foundation of America

Get ready to Bump, Set and Spike out Lung Cancer on June 6, 2009 at our Marina Green Volleyball Open. 
Click here for details and sponsorship opportunities.

Spring is in the air and from April 1- May 30th we will be conducting our Annual Spring Fling Donation Drive.
Three (3) random lucky winners who donate $20 or more will be entered into a drawing and eligible to win a Wii Fit, Best Buy Gift Card, or an iPod Shufle. Click here to donate.

DATE CHANGE: 3rd Annual Kites for Cancer Awareness sponsored by Genentech is August 8, 2009. Click here for details and sponsorship opportunities.

Other news: Obama appoints Nancy-Ann DeParle, who is a Lung Cancer advocate who lost her mother to the disease, to lead White House Office for Health Reform

Temple University doctors double the survival rate of 50 lung cancer patients. 

Roche files for Tarceva to be used in first-line lung cancer use.

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In This Issue

• Find A Cure Panel

• Advocate Corner - Get your nails done and spread the word!

• BF News & Events

Did you know?

10...% of radon related lung cancer deaths that occur each year according to the Environmental Protection Agency.

13...Billion dollars is what the tobacco industry spent in 2008 for advertising to get you to smoke.

04/01 - the day the new Federal tax on cigarettes goes into effect at $1.01.