Lung Cancer Awareness Month

EDM number 898 in 2010-12, proposed by John Baron on 26/10/2010.
Categorised under the topic of Health education and preventive medicine.

That this House welcomes Lung Cancer Awareness Month; notes that 39,750 people are diagnosed with lung cancer eachyear in the UK, and thatthe disease is the UK's largest cancer killer, with one person with lung cancer dying every 15 minutes; further notes that in order to decrease mortality in lung cancer, increased investment in research into lung cancer is needed, including improving early detection of the disease which accounts for 23 percent. of all cancer deaths but onlyfive per cent. of UK cancer research spend; commends thework of theRoy Castle Lung Cancer Foundation in raising awareness and researching earlier diagnosis; and calls on the Government to continue to support work raising awareness about the early detection and prevention of the UK's biggest cancer killer.

This motion has been signed by a total of 82 MPs, 1 of these signatures have been withdrawn.