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Article: Specialists warn that inadequate funding treats lung cancer as 'the poor relation'.
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- August 14, 2003
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Vancouver, British Columbia, August 14 /PRNewswire/ -- Lung cancer specialists from around the world are warning that lung cancer receives less funding than other common cancers - despite being the number one cause of cancer deaths in most countries - in a survey carried out at the 10th World Congress on Lung Cancer (10-14 August, Vancouver, Canada).
More than three-quarters (76 per cent) of doctors taking part in the survey considered that lung cancer currently receives less government funding than other common cancers. A similar number (77 per cent) thought that governments currently allocated more funding to diseases less serious than lung cancer. The survey ...