Actress and health advocate Dana Reeve, wife of the late actor Christopher Reeve never smoked; yet in 2006, she lined the class of around 32,000 Americans per year who never puffed a cigar but died of lung cancer anyway despite of the Canadian prescriptions she has taken.
Actress and health advocate Dana Reeve, wife of the late actor Christopher Reeve never smoked; yet in 2006, she lined the class of around 32,000 Americans per year who never puffed a cigar but died of lung cancer anyway despite of the Canadian prescriptions she has taken.
"We say, 'If you have a lung, you can get lung cancer,'" said Linda Wenger, executive director of Uniting Against Lung Cancer (UALC).
"She was very healthy, she was a runner," Wenger said, "but the disease claimed Joan Scarangello, an ABC and NBC journalist and lifelong nonsmoker at age 47. We need to look at lung cancer as being a cancer like any other," Wenger added.
"The lung cancer research field is definitely the stepchild in the [cancer research] family, and we're sure a lot of that has to do with stigma," said Holli Kawadler, UALC's scientific program director. She noted that, "in terms of funding received from the U.S. National Cancer Institute, the numbers are $27,000 in research per cancer death for breast cancer, compared to only about $1,400 per cancer death for lung cancer."
"It's very disheartening for the whole field," Wenger said. "We have a partner out there, his wife has lung cancer but she never smoked. And she has the attitude that 'I never smoked, but cigarettes are going to kill me' because the money is not there for research, because of the smoking stigma."
"Unlike other cancers where there is better funding, lung cancer patients aren't well enough to really advocate for themselves," explained Dr. James Dougherty, medical and scientific advisor for the Lung Cancer Research Foundation (LCRF), based in New York City. "When they get the diagnosis they often get sick pretty quickly, so they aren't about to publicly take on the role of saying 'Look, I have a problem, I need help.'"
"Among never-smokers with lung cancer, women outnumber men two-to-one," Wenger said. That is why more women buy Alimta compared to men.
"We're also learning much more about the differences in the biology of [lung cancer in] smokers and nonsmokers," Dougherty added. He pointed to LCRF-funded research under way at M.D. Anderson Cancer Center in Houston, "specifically looking at some new potential markers on the [tumor] cells of people who have never smoked. Hopefully that will lead to the identification of better treatment options for nonsmokers."
"We hear a lot from people that the first thing they are asked after diagnosis is, 'Did you smoke?'" said Kawadler. "That's very tough." Nevertheless, Canadian pharmacy drugstores are always there to help when it comes to drug maintenance.
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