Lung Cancer Alliance ( LCA ) was a U.S. national nonprofit organization, headquartered in Washington, D.C. Its stated purpose was to promote lung cancer awareness, reduce lung cancer mortality and end the stigma associated with lung cancer.
14-583: In 2019, LCA merged with the Bonnie J. Addario Lung Cancer Foundation to form the GO2 Foundation for Lung Cancer. Lung Cancer Alliance was founded in 1995 with to meet the needs of lung cancer patients and those at risk by improving outcomes, eliminating stigma and securing public health research funding. In 2010 Lung Cancer Alliance began its first awareness program. Since then, Lung Cancer Alliance has developed many programs focused on lung cancer awareness: "Give
28-484: A Scan", "National Shine a Light on Lung Cancer", and "Team Lung Love", have helped create awareness in the United States and internationally. In February 2012, Lung Cancer Alliance took on its first major initiative, creating a national framework for lung cancer screening. In June 2012, it launched its national "No One Deserves To Die" campaign to help raise awareness and change the stigma associated with lung cancer. By
42-871: A ballot initiative to increase tobacco tax by one dollar to fund cancer research and tobacco prevention programs. It was closely defeated by California voters at the state-wide election. On January 2, 2013, President Barack Obama signed the Recalcitrant Cancer Research Act of 2012 (H.R. 733) into law. This bill, which was included in the National Defense Authorization Act of 2013, requires the National Cancer Institute (NCI) to develop scientific frameworks for addressing cancers with survival rates of less than 50 percent. Within this act, lung cancer and pancreatic cancer were given priority status. The NCI framework must be submitted to
56-577: Is based in San Carlos, California . In 2019 the Foundation merged with the Lung Cancer Alliance to create a new organization known as the GO2 Foundation for Lung Cancer. BJALCF provides funding for lung cancer research, early detection, education, prevention and treatment. The Foundation is one of the only private providers of lung cancer research and community outreach programs. The Foundation
70-443: Is made up of volunteers, people in the medical profession, and lung cancer survivors. The Foundation has three goals: 1) to raise public awareness about the relative lack of attention given to lung cancer in biomedical research, 2) to help lung cancer patients navigate the healthcare system to receive the best available care, and 3) to enlist the aid of physicians and biomedical scientists in transforming cancer research. The Foundation
84-596: The Addario Lung Cancer Medical Institute (ALCMI), an international endeavor partnering academic institutions and community hospitals to advance treatment. In 2019 the Foundation merged with the Lung Cancer Alliance to create a new organization known as the GO2 Foundation for Lung Cancer. Bonnie J. Addario is the Founder and Chair of the BJALCF. Prior to starting the Foundation, she spent twenty years in
98-492: The Department of Health and Human Services, Department of Defense and Department of Veterans Affairs to develop a plan of action to coordinate prevention, early detection and treatment research for lung cancer. The bill aimed to reduce the mortality rate of lung cancer by 50 percent by 2020. On April 6, 2011, the bill died and was referred to Committee. In June 2012, Lung Cancer Alliance's California Chapter endorsed Proposition 29,
112-525: The United States Congress within 18 months. Bonnie J. Addario Lung Cancer Foundation The Bonnie J. Addario a Breath Away from the Cure Foundation ( ABAFTC ), sometimes styled Bonnie J. Addario Lung Cancer Foundation ( BJALCF ), is a foundation created by Bonnie J. Addario in 2005 to eradicate lung cancer through research, early detection, education, prevention and treatment. It
126-561: The end of the campaign, more than 281 million impressions were made and market research proved a shift in sentiment around lung cancer. Lung Cancer Alliance has local chapters in four states and communities. They have support groups in thirty-five states. In February 2012, LCA announced the launch of its National Framework for Lung Cancer Screening Excellence, which included a bill of rights for those most at risk of developing lung cancer and guiding principles for lung cancer screening sites. Lung Cancer Alliance's National Framework states that
140-453: The oil industry wherein she rose to a leadership role. Addario Lung Cancer Medical Institute The Addario Lung Cancer Medical Institute (ALCMI) is a 501c(3) nonprofit organization dedicated to forwarding lung cancer research that can lead to new therapeutics, diagnostics, and a better understanding of lung cancer risk factors in families and in younger people, and resistance mechanisms. Made up of an international consortium of 25 of
154-492: The public has a right to know if they are at risk for lung cancer, advocates for the increased use of low dose CT screenings to detect lung cancer in its early stages and offers endorsements of medical facilities that are deemed by the organization to be Centers of Excellence. In 2011, Lung Cancer Alliance supported the Lung Cancer Mortality Reduction Act, which authorized government research agencies with
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#1732841970496168-546: The world's premier oncology research institutions, ALCMI partners with the top minds from the most respected medical facilities, providing financial support and access to a team of experts and staff to assist in launching and managing investigator-initiated clinical trials. The organization was founded in 2008 by lung cancer survivor Bonnie J. Addario, founder of the Bonnie J. Addario Lung Cancer Foundation , which later merged with Lung Cancer Alliance to form GO2 for Lung Cancer, and her husband Tony Addario. The ALCMI Consortium
182-589: Was allocated to lung cancer, the leading cause of cancer death in both men and women. The lack of funding, coupled with the complexity of the disease, has helped prevent lung cancer from making significant advances in its five-year survival rate. According to the American Cancer Society, the five-year survival rate has remained at approximately 15% since 1971. The Bonnie J. Addario Lung Cancer Foundation set out to change this seeming lack of progress by bringing lung cancer to national attention and establishing
196-482: Was founded by Bonnie J. Addario, a lung cancer survivor, on March 6, 2006, the same day Dana Reeve died from lung cancer. This Foundation was formed in response to the fact that lung cancer is under-funded and under-researched based on the amount of research dollars allocated per death. In 2005, the Center for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) spent $ 204 million on breast and cervical cancer research. However, no money
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