[Congressional Bills 110th Congress]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office]
[H. Res. 335 Engrossed in House (EH)]


                In the House of Representatives, U. S.,

                                                     November 13, 2007.
Whereas lung cancer is the leading cause of cancer death for both men and women, 
        accounting for 28 percent of all cancer deaths;
Whereas lung cancer kills more people annually than breast cancer, prostate 
        cancer, colon cancer, liver cancer, melanoma, and kidney cancer 
        combined;
Whereas, since the National Cancer Act of 1971 (Public Law 92-218; 85 Stat. 
        778), coordinated and comprehensive research has raised the 5-year 
        survival rates for breast cancer to 88 percent, for prostate cancer to 
        99 percent, and for colon cancer to 64 percent;
Whereas the 5-year survival rate for lung cancer is still only 15 percent and a 
        similar coordinated and comprehensive research effort is required to 
        achieve increases in lung cancer survivability rates;
Whereas 60 percent of lung cancer cases are now diagnosed in nonsmokers or 
        former smokers;
Whereas \2/3\ of nonsmokers diagnosed with lung cancer are women;
Whereas certain minority populations, such as Black males, have 
        disproportionately high rates of lung cancer incidence and mortality, 
        notwithstanding their lower smoking rate;
Whereas members of the baby boomer generation are entering their sixties, the 
        most common age at which people develop cancer;
Whereas tobacco addiction and exposure to other lung cancer carcinogens such as 
        Agent Orange and other herbicides and battlefield emissions are serious 
        problems among military personnel and war veterans;
Whereas the August 2001 Report of the Lung Cancer Progress Review Group of the 
        National Cancer Institute stated that funding for lung cancer research 
        was ``far below the levels characterized for other common malignancies 
        and far out of proportion to its massive health impact'';
Whereas the Report of the Lung Cancer Progress Review Group identified as its 
        ``highest priority'' the creation of integrated, multidisciplinary, 
        multi-institutional research consortia organized around the problem of 
        lung cancer rather than around specific research disciplines; and
Whereas the United States must enhance its response to the issues raised in the 
        Report of the Lung Cancer Progress Review Group: Now, therefore, be it
    Resolved, That the House of Representatives--
            (1) recognizes lung cancer as a public health priority and the 
        importance of taking steps toward reducing the lung cancer mortality 
        rate by at least half by 2015;
            (2) acknowledges the importance of the recommendations of the Lung 
        Cancer Progress Review Group of the National Cancer Institute;
            (3) encourages increased investment for lung cancer research and 
        other lung cancer-related programs;
            (4) supports efforts to develop a broad-based lung cancer screening 
        and disease management program among members of the Armed Forces and 
        veterans; and
            (5) recognizes the benefit of graduate medical education programs in 
        thoracic medicine and cardiothoracic surgery.
            Attest:

                                                                          Clerk.