Proclamation #2022-018PPROCL.71MA'rION
Whereas, lung cancer is the leading cause of cancer death among men and women in
the United States, accounting for more than colon cancer, breast cancer, and prostate cancer
combined; and
Whereas, the 5-year survival rate for localized lung cancer is 60%, yet only 24% of
lung cancers are diagnosed at this stage; and
Whereas, screening for lung cancer for high -risk individuals using low -dosed
tomography can lead to the earlier detection of lung cancer and save lives; and
Whereas, funding for lung cancer research trails far behind funding for research for
many other cancers, and additional research is needed in early diagnosis, screening and
treatment for lung cancer as well as in lung cancer affecting women and lung cancer health
disparities; and
Whereas, organizations such as the American Lung Cancer Screening Initiative are
committed to educating about lung cancer and lung cancer screening and working to
increase lung cancer screening rates; and
Now, 'rhere_ fore, I, Tim Murry, Mayor of the City of Clermont in the State of Florida,
do hereby proclaim the month of November, Two Thousand and Twenty Two as:
Tung Cancer Awareness Month
In Witness Whereof, I have hereunto set my hand and caused the Great Seal of the
City of Clermont to be affixed this 31 st Day of August in the year Two Thousand and
Twenty Two.
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Tracy Ackr y Howe, MMC
City Clerk
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