LUNGevity Foundation

Did you get shut out of Grandma's Marathon in Duluth, Minnesota?

We've got great news! LUNGevity is an Official Charity Partner with Grandma's Marathon and has a limited number of guaranteed entries available for the 2027 races. Sign up now to secure your spot and help raise lifesaving funds for lung cancer research and support programs! fundraise.lungevity.org/grandmas27

Will you help us cover the nation in white flags for lung cancer awareness month?

Order your flag kit for $25 by October 15 and receive 125 flags representing the 125,000 American lives lost to lung cancer each year along with signage to raise awareness and make an impact.

Plant your flags in your yard, at your town hall, a local park, your treatment center, or anywhere in your community to raise awareness that anyone with lungs can get lung cancer and everyone can make a difference.

Visit LUNGevity.org/every-breath-forward to get started. Be sure to share with your friends and family so this November white flags are everywhere!

Each year, more than 1.5 million people in the United States receive CT scan results showing an indeterminate pulmonary nodule, or a small spot on the lung. Most nodules are not cancer, but some can be an early sign of lung cancer. For patients and their doctors, the next step is not always clear.

LUNGevity Foundation and Rising Tide Foundation for Clinical Cancer Research are investing $2 million in two early detection research projects that aim to improve how lung nodules are assessed.

One project, led by Steven Dubinett, MD, at UCLA, will study whether combining advanced CT image analysis with a blood-based test can help estimate the chance that a lung nodule is cancerous. Another project, led by Lecia Sequist, MD, MPH, at Massachusetts General Hospital and Harvard Medical School, will evaluate Sybil, an open-source AI model that analyzes CT scans to estimate lung cancer risk.

If successful, this research could help patients receive more timely, accurate information and help medical teams with appropriate follow-up care, additional testing, or early intervention.

Learn more: https://www.lungevity.org/blogs/2m-investment-propels-early-detection-research

October is almost here and so is your chance to connect with the lung cancer community! A few highlights for next month include:

🤍Storytelling 101: Using Your Voice to Drive Change, just in time for Lung Cancer Awareness Month, learn how you can make an impact by sharing your story

🫁Long-term Survivors Virtual Meetup, this new monthly meetup brings together long-term lung cancer survivors for support and community to discuss issues specific to them

🏳️October Virtual Twistshop: Make a flag inspired by Every Breath Forward, get crafty and make your own symbolic Hope Flag inspired by the flag installations across the nation coming in November

As always, all virtual events are free to attend. Register for as many as you would like via the calendar at lungevity.org/events

What does long-term survivorship in lung cancer mean? What do long-term survivors need and where do we start?

Stacy Wentworth, MD, joins us to share with participants the mechanisms to encourage patient-directed care. This includes how to identify and address late effects, coordinate care across health systems, support healthy living, and ensure that personal values and priorities guide survivorship care.

Register now to join the conversation: https://brnw.ch/21x5YQu

Team LUNGevity is headed to Berlin this weekend for the BMW Berlin Marathon!

Send your good vibes to our 12 amazing athletes who are running in Germany to raise lung cancer awareness and critical funds for research and support services.

Stay tuned to Instagram and Facebook stories this weekend for a look into Marathon Weekend with Team LUNGevity in Berlin!

Want to learn more? Check out teamlungevity.org

Have you wondered whether you are supposed to eat sugar? Or if supplements are a good idea?

These are common questions for people living with lung cancer. Nutrition was one of the first questions survivor Diane Beall wondered about, so she started doing her homework. Diane and Dr. Jared Weiss join hosts Ann Steagall and Dr. Misty Shields on the latest episode of Lung Cancer Voices of Hope to discuss nutrition and lung cancer. Listen now: lungevity.org/podcast