FAQ
- Lung cancer kills as many people in the U.S. as breast, colon,
and prostate cancer combined, and receives no more funding
than any one of them.
- Asthma affects 5-7% of the U.S. population, roughly 20 million
Americans, and is the most common chronic disabling disease of
childhood.
- COPD affects 15 million Americans and causes huge hardship and
expense.
- Pneumonia is currently the 6th leading cause of
death in the U.S., 5th among the elderly
- Respiratory infections remain the greatest killer of children
on the planet.
- Not to mention ARDS, sarcoidosis, pulmonary hypertension,
pulmonary fibrosis, tuberculosis, sleep apnea and the many other
diseases that cause great human suffering
Excluding cystic fibrosis, private funding for lung research is
paltry.
- About $10-25 million is spent from all philanthropic sources
annually on all lung diseases other than CF in the U.S.
- Diabetes alone raises $80-100 million/year for research.
- Parkinson's ($21 million in 2004),
- Prostate cancer ($230 million in ten years),
- Lupus ($30 million), etc.,
