Ideas take root in an unsympathetic country
August 30, 2010
IN order to help
Australians raise
awareness of lung
cancer and motivate
people with lung
disease symptoms to
seek diagnosis and
early treatment the
Australian Lung
Foundation last week,
held commemorative
Tree Planting
ceremonies across
the country.
The events coincided with the release of new international research
which found that Australia is one of the least sympathetic
countries in the world when it comes to attitudes towards lung cancer.
Researchers took into account responses from 16,000 people across 16
countries and found that Aussies were generally unaware that lung cancer
is Australia’s biggest cancer killer
(responsible for more deaths per
annum than breast, ovarian and
prostate cancer combined).
In addition, over one third of
Aussie respondents also indicated
that they felt less sympathy for lung
cancer sufferers than other cancer
patients, given its link to smoking.
“It’s important that Australians
recognise that lung cancer, like all
types of cancer, doesn’t
discriminate,” said Prof Matthews
Peters, Head of Respiratory
Medicine at Concord Hospital
Sydney, with lung cancer affecting
“men and women, smokers and
never smokers, the old and the
young.”
Prof Peters is pictured planting a
tree with lung cancer survivor, Sue
McCullough.
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