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Janice McArdle was an extraordinary person. She was a wife, a mother, sister, aunt, good friend, teacher, artist, and the number of lives she touched in a positive and uplifting manner is amazing. Unfortunately, for all of us, she was stolen by a hideous, awful disease.
She lived a vibrant fifty-nine years before being taken from us in February 2008 from lung cancer. She was an active, healthy non-smoker. Janice visited the doctor in June of 2007 because she had a cough, later shocked to find out she was diagnosed with an advanced stage of lung cancer. She showed no other symptoms and was a non-smoker, so this news was unbelievable. It is the feeling of her family and friends that if this terrible disease was caught early, the outcome would have been much different. Unfortunately, there is a lack of awareness that lung cancer can affect non-smokers. |
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The mission of The Janice McArdle Cancer Research Foundation is to fund innovative research to create awareness and education, develop early detection methods, advance treatment techniques and ultimately find a cure for non-smoking lung cancer.
To save more people we need your help. We cannot bring Jannie back, but we can make her impact on all of us continue through The Janice McArdle Cancer Research Foundation with emphasis on non-smoking related cancer research.
About the Foundation
The Janice Lamb McArdle Cancer Research Foundation was established when Janice lost her battle with non-smoking lung cancer in 2008. Since its inception, “Jannie’s Hope” has raised $250,000 for research.One in every three cancer deaths is the result of lung cancer. Lung cancer is the leading cause of cancer deaths across every ethnic group in the United States. However, a significantly smaller amount of research funds are invested in lung cancer than in breast cancer. Nearly 80% of new lung cancer cases have never smoked or are smokers who have quit, many of whom quit decades ago.
The goal of Jannie’s Hope is to raise funds to increase the research and awareness for non-smoking related lung cancer.
Lung Cancer Facts
Did you know?
Source: 2012 lung cancer facts published by the Lung Cancer Alliance.
- Lung cancer is the second leading cause of death in the United States.
- Lung cancer claims the lives of more women, each year, than breast, cervical and ovarian cancers COMBINED!
- Only 15% of lung cancer is diagnosed at an early stage.
- Lung cancer research receives only $1,871 per death compared to breast cancer which receives $25,635 per death in 2012.
Source: 2012 lung cancer facts published by the Lung Cancer Alliance.
