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August 13, 2005

NCI Announces Plan to Fight Lung Cancer

The National Cancer Institute (NCI) today announced an integrated effort to reduce the suffering and death due to lung cancer by 2015. Each year, 160,000 people in the United States are diagnosed with lung cancer, making it the number one cause of cancer deaths in this country. This initiative further supports the NCI mission to reduce the suffering and death due to all cancers by 2015. ( National Cancer Institute)

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