Laurie Fenton Quotations

Lung cancer continues to be portrayed as a self-induced cancer that does not deserve public research funding.

There has been a very disturbing increase in the number of non-smoking younger women being diagnosed now with lung cancer.

Sadly, it takes her death, coming just seven months after diagnosis, and the fact that she had never smoked, to let the public see the real picture of lung cancer.

This issue is extremely complicated and cannot be resolved unless all parties -- the medical community, the regulatory agencies, the drug development and research communities, and patient advocates -- are willing to work together creatively and constructively to address the needs of dying patients.

In essence, the D.C. District Court of Appeals said the rights of terminally ill cancer patients must be protected and not dismissed lightly -- and we completely agree.