Every five minutes, a woman in the U.S. is diagnosed with lung cancer

The leading cancer killer of men and women in the US. In Arizona, 1,681 women are diagnosed each year. Half of these women will not be alive one year later, and the five-year survival rate is just 16.6%. Anyone can get lung cancer: two-thirds of women diagnosed never smoked or quit years earlier. The American Lung Association’s LUNG FORCE is making lung cancer in women a public health priority, driving policy change and an increase in research funding.

LUNG FORCE will also help the almost 19,000 children in Pima County with asthma, and the 47,000+ adults with Chronic Obstructive Pulmonary Disease (COPD) in Pima County.  Asthma can be devastating at any age, but for children, asthma can seriously interfere with normal psychological, physical, and emotional development and can impede the educational process. Our LUNG FORCE Walk will raise vital funds for programs and services to children and families in Southern Arizona with lung cancer, COPD and asthma. Funds are also used to support research at the Asthma Clinical Research Center and other research institutions.

Join us on March 28th for the LUNG FORCE Walk and help us be a FORCE to be reckoned with. Register today at www.lungforce.org/walk