Out of the Shadows
Out of the Shadows: Women and Lung Cancer is a groundbreaking report issued by the Mary Horrigan Connors Center at Brigham and Women's Hospital - a teaching affiliate of Harvard Medical School. It was produced in partnership with Lung Cancer Alliance. 
The Joan Gaeta Lung Cancer Foundation encourages everyone to take some time and read this 32-page document. According to Lung Cancer Alliance, it is the most current and comprehensive report ever done for the general public on lung cancer.
The report can be downloaded here. It includes:
A statistical update on women and lung cancer
A discussion on sex-based differences in lung cancer
An insight into the gaps in research funding.
"For far too long, lung cancer has been ignored as a women's health issue. This is the wake-up call for women. Most women do not realize that lung cancer will take more of their lives each year than breast, ovarian, cervical and uterine cancers combined. Hopefully this report will galvanize women to become advocates to end this cancer, along with all cancers that impact women so profoundly. There are so many women out there struggling with lung cancer who feel so isolated and shunned. The title of the report - Out of the Shadows - refers not just to the disease of lung cancer, but to them - the patients - who have been ignored for too long." - Lung Cancer Alliance President and CEO, Laurie Fenton Ambrose
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The Joan Gaeta Lung Cancer Fund would like to congratulate and thank
Lung Cancer Alliance and the entire team at the Connors Center responsible for the report.