LUNG CANCER AWARENESS MONTH
WHEREAS, lung cancer is the leading cause of cancer deaths in both men and women in Wyoming and the United States; and
WHEREAS, lung cancer takes the lives of more Americans each year than breast, prostate, colon, liver, kidney cancers combined; and
WHERES, an estimated 260 Wyomingites will die from lung cancer and 320 will be newly diagnosed this year; and
WHEREAS, more than 80 percent of lung and bronchus cancer is caused by cigarette smoking; and
WHEREAS, early lung cancer diagnosis and management protocols exist, yet have not been embraced as the standard of care;
NOW THEREFORE, I, DAVE FREUDENTHAL, GOVERNOR, do hereby officially proclaim the month of November 2009 in the State of Wyoming as
LUNG CANCER AWARENESS MONTH
and urge Wyoming residents to make lung cancer a national public health priority and offer compassion to people with lung cancer.
IN WITNESS WHEREOF, I have hereunto set my hand this 18th day of November, 2009.