Funding for innovative research is crucial to retaining and recruiting the brilliant minds needed to understand this disease and advance the science, but lung cancer research receives far less funding from the NIH than is needed to move us closer to a cure.



*Estimated
Sources: National Institutes of Health, Research Portfolio Online Reporting Tools: http://report.nih.gov/rcdc/categories/. The research category levels represent the NIH’s best estimates based on the category definitions.
Cancer Facts and Figures 2011, American Cancer Society. http://www.cancer.org/acs/groups/content/@epidemiologysurveilance/documents/document/acspc-029771.pdf Accessed August 2011.
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