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The Lung Cancer Society of Long Island Receives Generous Donation from Don’s Hand Car Wash of Smithtown, NY
March 2011

Summary: The Lung Cancer Society of Long Island was grateful to receive a generous donation $7,710 from Don's Hand Car Wash of Smithtown, NY. Alan Fleisher, the owner of Don's Hand Car Wash, "One dollar from every car wash in November was donated to the cause. This was in memory of my mother Beverly who lost a courageous battle with lung cancer in September of last year at age 84."

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Newsday Profiles Lung Cancer Society of Long Island’s Selma Rosen
November 6, 2010

Summary: As the National Cancer Institute releases data that shows that CT scans can detect lung cancer early and reduce mortality, Newsday talks to The Lung Cancer Society of Long Island's own Selma Rosen, a lung cancer survivor whose cancer was detected in its early stages via a CT scan in 1995. Selma says, "I am a long-term survivor and that’s thanks to early detection."
http://www.newsday.com/long-island/nassau/a-lung-cancer-survivor-s-story-1.2435252

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Patient Donates to Lung Cancer Research

Selma Rosen, an advocate of lung cancer screening and a patient of New York-Presbyterian Hospital/Weill Cornell, recently donated $10,000 to Weill Cornell's Foundation for Lung Cancer: Early Detection, Prevention and Treatment, on behalf of the Lung Cancer Society of Long Island and Ms. Rosen's project with Landmark Education's Self Expression and Leadership Program.

The Foundation for Lung Cancer: Early Detection, Prevention and Treatment is a group of international specialists with a common research goal of early cancer detection coordinated at Weill Cornell and led in part by Dr. Claudia Henschke, professor of radiology at Weill Cornell and chief of the Division of Chest Imaging and the Division of Health-Care Policy and Technology Assessment at New York-Presbyterian.

The Lung Cancer Society of Long Island was founded in 2001 as a not-for-profit organization advocating the early detection, research, education and prevention of lung cancer.

http://weill.cornell.edu/deans/2006/07_17_06/article_04-07_17.shtml

November 2004 has been proclaimed Lung Cancer Awareness Month in the State of New York by Governor George Pataki. This is the first time in history this has been accomplished.

A press release dated November 11, 2004, states:

"Whereas lung cancer is the leading cause of cancer death in both men and women in New York State and the United States and will kill more than 164,000 Americans, exceeding the number who die from breast, prostate and colorectal combined.

"Whereas it is estimated that 80 percent of lung cancer is caused by smoking, during 2004 more than 25,000 Americans who never smoked will be diagnosed with lung cancer (from other causes than tobacco)….

"Since nearly 90 percent of current smokers started before 18 years of age, parents are encouraged to discuss with their children the dangerous effects of smoking…

"Whereas early detection is critically important to increasing the survival rate of … lung cancer, since the early symptoms are vague or non existent and when individuals are diagnosed with early-stage lung cancer their chances of achieving five-year survival can be as high as 85 percent.

"Therefore I, George E. Pataki, Governor of the State of New York do hereby recognize November 2004 as Lung Cancer Awareness Month in the Empire State.”

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Proclamation signed by Gov. Pataki		The Lung Cancer Society of Long Island proudly holding the Proclamation