Breathe easy month
November 6, 2013
November is national lung
health awareness month, and Lung
Foundation Australia encourages
everyone to take five minutes to do
its online lung health checklist at
www.lunghealthchecklist.com.au.
More than six million Australians
are living with a long-term, ongoing
respiratory condition, with lung
disease affecting people right
across the community.
In both men and women, lung
cancer is the fourth most common
cancer diagnosed and the most
common cause of cancer-related
death - more than breast, ovarian
and prostate cancers combined.
The chronic lung disease COPD is
more common than cancer, traffic
accidents, heart disease or diabetes.
In fact, Australia has one of the
highest rates of death from COPD in
the developed world.
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