In 1971, President Nixon declared a 'War on Cancer.' Nearly
forty years and $310 billion in taxpayer dollars and donations
later, there will be nearly 8 million cancer deaths and 11
million new cases of cancer worldwide this year. Due to
environmental factors, lifestyle choices, and the aging
population, within the next ten years cancer rates will escalate
to epidemic proportions. In fact, cancer is the second leading
cause of death in the industrialized nations of the world today,
trailing only heart disease. More specifically, lung cancer is
the most lethal of cancers worldwide, and will soon cause more
than 4 million deaths annually. This number is increasing. Only
one in ten patients diagnosed with this disease (mostly early
stage patients) will survive five years. In 2008, the American
Cancer Society estimated that 215,000 cases of lung cancer would
be diagnosed in the United States in 2008 and that approximately
160,000 people would die from it. More women die of lung cancer
than of breast and ovarian c