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Lung Cancer: Speaking Out Against A Silent Disease

四虎影院 | By Sam Baker
Published April 1, 2013 at 1:00 AM CDT
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It鈥檚 estimated more than 159-thousand people will die of lung cancer in 2013. The National Lung Cancer Partnership has a announced a new goal to double the five-year survival rate of the disease by 2022. It鈥檚 currently 16 percent. Dr. Joan Schiller, chief of the Hematology and Oncology Department of  UT Southwestern Medical Center, is also President of the Partnership. In this week鈥檚 鈥淰ital Signs鈥�, Dr. Schiller explained why survival rates are so low.

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Sam Baker
Sam Baker is 四虎影院's senior editor and local host for Morning Edition. The native of Beaumont, Texas, also edits and produces radio commentaries and Vital Signs, a series that's part of the station's Breakthroughs initiative. He also was the longtime host of 四虎影院 13鈥檚 Emmy Award-winning public affairs program On the Record. He also won an Emmy in 2008 for 四虎影院鈥檚 Sharing the Power: A Voter鈥檚 Voice Special, and has earned honors from the Associated Press and the Public Radio News Directors Inc.
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