110 HRES 335 EH: Resolution expressing the sense of the House U.S. House of Representatives 2007-11-13 text/xml EN Pursuant to Title 17 Section 105 of the United States Code, this file is not subject to copyright protection and is in the public domain.

IV 110th CONGRESS 1st Session H. RES. 335 In the House of Representatives, U. S., November 13, 2007 RESOLUTION Resolution expressing the sense of the House of Representatives with respect to lung cancer as a public health priority and the recommendations of the Lung Cancer Progress Review Group of the National Cancer Institute.

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

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.

Lorraine C. Miller, Clerk.