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Lung cancer survivors fight societal stigma 

Lung cancer gets a fraction of the funding that other major cancers do. The federal government spent $1,249 per lung cancer death in 2009 compared with $27,480 per breast cancer death, according to the Lung Cancer Alliance.

Now a Madison group is trying to fight that. The National Lung Cancer Partnership is holding a 5K run/walk Sunday to help support its research, education and awareness programs and encouraging lung cancer victims to tell their stories.

Regina Vidaver, the group's executive director, said this lack of funding indicates that society values the life of somebody with breast cancer more than the life of somebody with lung cancer.

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