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Lung Cancer Walk in Detroit

Submitted by bethida on Mon, 2007-08-20 19:35.

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LUNGevity Foundation, the nation's fastest growing grant-making foundation devoted to lung cancer research and support, seeks motivated, energetic, organized individuals to help us produce a fundraiser walk in Detroit in 2008. We produce walks all over the country; more than 10,000 participants will stride with us in 2007! Detroit is a prime market for us, and we'd like to build a team to plan and execute the walk, using our expertise and resources.

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Started On:August 20, 2007Ended On:August 20, 2008
People Involved:10,000+People Impacted:hundreds of thousands of patients and their loved ones
Money Raised:$3.7 million  

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Related Cause: Cancer

Category: Health & Medicine

Tags: cancer lung cancer walk Research lung cancer research Karmanos

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Shout Out Againist Smoking

Submitted by DSclub_MA_English on Mon, 2007-04-09 15:40.


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Did you know that 1200 people die each day from smoking realted health issues? The English High School club “Shout Out Against Smoking” decided to join with other teens in the battle against teen smoking. With a grant from The Medical Foundation in Boston, students contacted the KICKBUTTS.ORG and planned many activities to make teens aware of the hazards of smoking. First they conducted a survey to find out who smoked and why. The students also researched the school’s smoking policies regarding smoking on school grounds and posted the information. Next they held several contests to promote their cause. EHS students were asked to submit posters about the hazards of smoking to be used for an 18-month calendar or an essay about the affects smoking had on their family or friends. One student designed a power point presentation and poster for a Youth Action Initiative Summit to be held in April. Another student is producing a PSA (Public Service Announcement) for the same purpose. Other students searched for smoking advertisements, and placed smoking facts on them to be posted as a wall of protest against this type of advertisements promoting smoking. Informational flyers were passed out to all staff and students listing books, videos and other resources from our school library and near by clinic. Students regularly scanned local newspapers for articles about smoking and posted them on the Health room’s bulletin board. March 28th was Kick Butts Day 07 – on this day we had KDB T-shirts for students and staff who passed in smoking facts – 100 T-shirts were given out and worn that day. In fact we ran out of the shirts and were pleased we raised $89.00 for the American Cancer Society for Lung Cancer research. For months, we planned and painted a mural with the number 1200 surrounded by 1200 handprints to represent the people who die each day from smoking issues. The mural stops everyone and when they ask what the 1200 means the students feel proud that are able to impact so many people with just a few numbers and words.

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Started On:December 2006Ended On:April 2007
People Involved:18-36 key students, but as many as (50) students participated in the contests and 100 students answered student created survey about smoking habitsPeople Impacted:Hundreds of People
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Related Cause: Smoking

Category: Public Health

Tags: teens DS Clubs smoking mural kick butts lung cancer service learning community servce

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  • Post nominated for a brick on Thu, 2007-04-26 21:09

Read on to learn more about this terrible cancer, and then Take Action to fight it.

FACT 1

Lung cancer is the number one cause of cancer deaths in both men and women in the United States.

FACT 2

Lung cancer kills more people than colon, breast, and prostate cancers COMBINED.

FACT 3

In 2007, an estimated 213,380 Americans will be newly diagnosed with lung cancer: 114,780 men and 98,620 women.

FACT 4

About 160,390 people are expected to die from lung cancer this year: 89,510 men and 70,880 women.

FACT 5

Within one year of being diagnosed with lung cancer, 6 out of 10 lung cancer sufferers will die. Between 7 and 8 will die within two years.

FACT 6

There are about 330,000 long-term cancer survivors currently.

FACT 7

A man has a 1 in 12 chance of developing lung cancer during his lifetime. A woman’s chance is 1 in 16.

FACT 8

Lung cancer causes the most deaths worldwide, with about 3 million deaths per year.

FACT 9

Even if you never smoke, you can get lung cancer.

FACT 10

In the United States, smoking is the probably cause of 87% of lung cancer cases, 90% in men, and 79% in women.

FACT 11

Of the 80,000 women in the United States who were diagnosed with lung cancer in 2006, 70,000 are expected to die from it.

FACT 12

Every week, about 437 Canadians will be diagnosed with lung cancer. In that same amount of time, about 371 Canadians will die from lung cancer.

Sources:

Facts 1-7 from the American Cancer Society – www.cancer.org
Facts 8-11 from Wikipedia – http://www.wikipedia.org
Fact 12 from Canadian Cancer Society – http://www.cancer.ca/

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