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World Lung Cancer Day: History, Significance, Quotes, Slogans And Theme
Lung cancer is one of the most common cancers that lead to millions of deaths every year. World Lung Cancer Day is celebrated every year to spread awareness about the same. Scroll down to learn about the history, significance, quotes, slogans and themes associated with this day.
According to the World Health Organization, lung cancer causes the death of around 1.6 million people around the world. Amongst these 15 percent of people do not have any tobacco use history. Air pollution, exposure to secondhand smoke, and asbestos exposure are some of the most common reasons for cancer in people. According to the National Cancer Institute, 1,03,371 cases of lung cancer were reported in 2022. World Lung Cancer Day is observed every year on August 1 to spread awareness about this fatal disease. Scroll down to learn about the history, significance, slogan, theme and quotes associated with this day.
World Lung Cancer Day HistoryWorld Lung Cancer Day is annually observed on August 1 to spread awareness about this lethal disease. It was first observed in 2012 through a collaboration between the Forum of International Respiratory Societies (FIRS) and the International Association for the Study of Lung Cancer (IASLC). The day serves as an opportunity for healthcare professionals. Organisations, and research to raise awareness about this disease.
World Lung Cancer Day serves as a reminder to unite efforts and raise awareness, promoting early detection and support to those who are suffering from lung cancer. Several organisations and hospitals organise campaigns and activities to highlight the importance of ongoing research and innovation to combat lung cancer.
World Lung Cancer Day Theme 2024This year in 2024, World Lung Cancer Day is themed, "Close the Care Gap: Everyone Deserves Access to Cancer Care".
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World Lung Cancer Day QuotesHere are the quotes associated with World Lung Cancer Day:
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Shannen Doherty's Most Empowering Quotes About Her Cancer Battle Before Her Death
Shannen Doherty was a fighter during her years-long cancer battle.
The "Beverly Hills, 90210" alum died on Saturday at age 53, nine years after she was first diagnosed with breast cancer in 2015.
Her publicist, Leslie Sloane, told PEOPLE the actress "was surrounded by her loved ones" when she passed away.
Doherty went into remission in 2017, but less than three years later, she announced she had stage 4 breast cancer.
Shannen Doherty at the FOX Summer TCA 2019 All-Star Party. AFP via Getty ImagesDoherty was open about her health battle in the final years of her life.
"I'm not done with living," she said less than eight months before her death. "I'm not done with loving. I'm not done with creating. I'm not done with hopefully changing things for the better. I'm just not — I'm not done."
Here are Shannen Doherty's most empowering quotes about her cancer battle.
August 2015Doherty confirmed she was diagnosed with cancer in August 2015 at age 44.
Shannen Doherty American Cancer Society's Giants of Science Los Angeles Gala in Nov. 2016. WireImage"Yes, I have breast cancer, and I am currently undergoing treatment," the actress said in a statement to PEOPLE.
"I am continuing to eat right, exercise and stay very positive about my life," she continued. "I am thankful to my family, friends and doctors for their support and, of course, my fans who have stood by me."
August 2016One year after revealing her diagnosis, Doherty opened up about her husband Kurt Iswarienko's support. The couple's marriage later ended in 2023 as Doherty filed for divorce and alleged that he cheated for two years.
"I could not have gotten through this without my husband," Doherty said to Entertainment Tonight in Aug. 2016. "My marriage was always strong, but it's made my marriage a thousand times stronger. He's never missed a chemo. He's never missed a sick day."
Shannen Doherty on "The Kelly Clarkson Show." Weiss Eubanks/NBCUniversal via Getty Images October 2016The "Heathers" star shared more about her health battle on Chelsea Handler's talk show in Oct. 2016.
"I think what's beautiful and hard and interesting about cancer is that it tears you down and builds you, and tears you down and builds you. It remakes you so many different times," she said.
"The person I thought I was supposed to be or was going to be or who I thought I was six months ago is now somebody completely different," Doherty continued. "And I realize, 'Wow, I really thought that I was so brave and so gracious this entire time and really I was just hiding.' "
April 2017Doherty shared the news that she was in remission in April 2017.
"What does remission mean? I heard that word and have no idea how to react. Good news? YES. Overwhelming. YES," she said.
Shannen Doherty at a Stand Up to Cancer event on Sept. 9, 2016. AFP via Getty Images"Now more waiting. As every single one of my fellow cancer family knows, the next five years is crucial. Reoccurrences happen all the time. Many of you have shared that very story with me. So with a heart that is certainly lighter, I wait."
September 2018During an appearance on "Good Morning America" in Sept. 2018, Doherty said she was in good health.
"Everything's going really well. You hear the word remission and it's a rush of different emotions. It's like, 'what's next?' " she said. "There's a little bit of fear and apprehension. I felt lost for a second. I was like, 'now what?'"
"But then it sort of starts seeping in and then you get joyous and you get so excited but then you got to wait for that five-year mark and that 10-year mark — so remission is a crazy word to me."
Doherty also said sharing her cancer journey on social media "helped me because when I got back, these beautiful stories from other people, what they were going through … giving me hope and support and love, it really helped. It's truly a family. There's something so beautiful about the journey."
February 2020In Feb. 2020, Doherty revealed on "GMA" that her cancer came back and was in stage four.
"I don't think I've processed it. It's a bitter pill to swallow in a lot of ways," she said.
Shannen Doherty at a Stand Up to Cancer event. Disney General Entertainment Content via Getty ImagesDoherty added: "I definitely have days where I say why me. And then I go, well, why not me? Who else? Who else besides me deserves this? None of us do. But I would say that my first reaction is always concern about how — how am I going to tell my mom, my husband."
She also said it was "weird" to be diagnosed with cancer but still outlive her "Beverly Hills, 90210" co-star Luke Perry, who died in March 2019 from a stroke at age 52.
March 2020Doherty said on Instagram in March 2020 that she was "embracing every day" of her life amid her cancer battle.
Shannen Doherty at the Paramount Network launch party on January 18, 2018. NINA PROMMER/EPA-EFE/Shutterstock"After a year of dealing with cancer coming back and other stresses, I'm back at it. Taking care of myself and embracing every day," she wrote in her social media post. "It's not always easy. I have days I'm depressed or just plain lazy. But I push thru with the help of friends."
September 2020Doherty told Elle in Sept. 2020 how she was preparing for death.
"I haven't sat down to write letters. That's something I need to do," she said. "There are things I need to say to my mom. I want my husband to know what he's meant to me."
Shannen Doherty at the Hallmark Channel and American Humanes 2019 Hero Dog Awards. Getty Images for Hallmark ChannelShe also said at the time she considered making video messages for her loved ones to watch after her passing.
"But whenever it comes time for me to do it, it feels so final," she noted. "It feels like you're signing off, and I'm not signing off. I feel like I'm a very, very healthy human being. It's hard to wrap up your affairs when you feel like you're going to live another 10 or 15 years."
October 2021The "Girls Just Want to Have Fun" actress said she was "fighting to stay alive" on "GMA" in Oct. 2021.
"I never want to operate [like I'm dying]. I just want to operate as I don't have things to check off because I'm going to keep fighting to stay alive," she said.
Shannen Doherty on her podcast."A lot of people who get diagnosed with Stage 4, they sort of get written off. It's assumed that they cannot work or they can't work at their full capacity, and that is not true," Doherty added. "That is something that I would really like for people to stop assuming and give us a chance to prove them wrong."
June 2023In June 2023, Doherty shared a clip of "what cancer can look like" before she underwent brain surgery.
"I am clearly trying to be brave but I am petrified," Doherty wrote. "The fear was overwhelming to me. Scared of all possible bad outcomes, worried about leaving my mom and how that would impact her. Worried that I would come out of surgery not me anymore."
September 2023At '90s Con, Doherty appeared at a "Beverly Hills, 90210" panel with some of her former cast members and told fans she was still struggling in her cancer battle.
"I have a fight for my life, that I deal with every day," Doherty said. "I think I am really great."
Brian Austin Green, Shannen Doherty at the "BH90210" panel in Aug. 2019. Penske Media via Getty Images November 2023"I don't want to die," Doherty told People in Nov. 2023. "I'm not done with living. I'm not done with loving. I'm not done with creating. I'm not done with hopefully changing things for the better. I'm just not — I'm not done."
She also said it's "insane" there's still no cure for cancer.
December 2023Doherty said on her podcast in Dec. 2023 that she thought she was going to die early on in her cancer battle.
"When I dropped down to 92 pounds from chemo and was incredibly dehydrated, I had to still get out of bed," she recalled. "My husband at the time [was] sort of begging me to keep going, and my mom [was] literally trying to pick me up out of bed and get me to the doctor. … At that point in time, I thought that I wouldn't survive it."
The actress added that undergoing chemotherapy and other treatments taught her her true purpose: "Help others going through what I was going through and … possibly speed up cancer research [and] possibly get more money behind it."
January 2024Six months before her death, Doherty said on her podcast she was hoping to "squeeze out another three to five years."
"There's going to be a lot more options that will give [us] another five years," she said. "Then in those five years, there's a whole other group of options, and eventually there's going to be a cure."
Later that month, Doherty shared a "miracle" health update.
"I'm not gonna say what it is, I'm on a new cancer infusion, and after four treatments, we didn't really see a difference and everybody wanted me to switch, and I just kinda was like, 'We're gonna keep going with this and see,' " she shared on the podcast. "And yeah, after the sixth or seventh treatment, we really saw it breaking down the blood-brain barrier."
"For me, that happens to be a miracle right now," the actress added. "That I sort of rolled the dice and said, 'Let's keep going.'"
Shannen Doherty at MegaCon Orlando 2024. Getty ImagesAlso in Jan. 2024, Doherty revealed on her podcast that she wanted her loved ones to distribute her ashes "in a healthy mixture."
"I want [my remains] to be mixed with my dog, and I want it to be mixed with my dad. I do not want to be buried and not cremated," she said at the time. She also suggested scattering her and her father's ashes in Malibu, Calif., where they spent "precious time" together or using her remains to "grow them into a tree."
Doherty said she wanted her funeral to be small.
"There's a lot of people that I think would show up that I don't want there. I don't want them there because their reasons for showing up aren't necessarily the best reasons, like, they don't really like me and, you know, they have their reasons and good for them, but they don't actually really like me enough to show up to my funeral," she explained.
"[They'll show up] because it's the politically correct thing to do, and they don't want to look bad, so I kinda want to take the pressure off them and I want my funeral to be like a love fest," she went on. "I don't want people to be crying or people to privately be like, 'Thank God that bitch is dead now.'"
April 2024Three months before her death, Doherty said on her podcast that she was selling her belongings so her mom wouldn't have to deal with them after her death.
"The cancer, for me, has really made me take stock of my life and shift my priorities, and my priority at the moment is my mom," she said. "I don't want her to have a bunch of stuff to deal with. I don't want her to have four storage units filled with furniture because I have a furniture obsession."
Doherty said she initially felt like she was "throwing in the towel" by selling her belongings, but decided to use the money to enjoy the time she had left with her loved ones.
"It feels like you're giving up on something that was very special and important to you," she said. "But you know that it's the right thing to do and that it's going to give you a sense of peace and a sense of calm because you're helping the people that you leave behind just have a cleaner, easier transition."
Inside Jim Valvano's Speech: The Story & Jimmy V's Famous Quotes Behind Iconic 1993 ESPYS Speech
It's been over three decades since the late Jim Valvano delivered his iconic "Don't ever give up" speech at the 1993 ESPY Awards, but his words and his message have stood the test of time.
The championship-winning college basketball coach is honored annually at the ESPYS with the presentation of the Jimmy V Award for perseverance, and Valvano serves as the inspiration for ESPN's V Week to raise money for cancer research during each college basketball season.
Valvano knew the end was near when he made the speech, though you wouldn't know it from the optimism he projected on that stage. Valvano's dream of eradicating cancer is a battle that's still being fought, but the awareness he helped create has brought us closer to that day.
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The Sporting News takes a look back at Valvano's iconic ESPYS speech, including some of his most memorable quotes.
Jim Valvano speechValvano won the inaugural Arthur Ashe Courage and Humanitarian Award on March 4, 1993 amid his battle with cancer, and the speech he gave after receiving the award has stood the test of time.
The speech emphasized the importance of time, hope, and family. Valvano described how important it is to have hope even in the most difficult times, and he told listeners that his cancer served as a reminder that time is precious and appreciating each and every moment of life was critical.
A message of hope isn't uncommon. In fact, it's about the most typical trope in any motivational speech. What made Valvano's speech so impactful, aside from the eloquence of his words, was that the message was coming from someone who had every reason not to have any hope. Valvano was diagnosed with terminal cancer in the prime of his life, yet he stood up on the stage as a 46-year-old man and spoke as optimistically as someone who had 50 years left to live.
Perhaps most importantly, Valvano announced during his speech that he was launching the V Foundation for Cancer Research. While he knew he wouldn't live long enough to see the difference it would make, the foundation serves as a lasting legacy of the legendary coach.
Jimmy V speech quotesValvano's speech has been quoted for decades, largely because of the fortitude and optimism he displayed in what he knew would be a losing battle.
When Valvano saw the 30-second warning reminding him to wrap up his speech, he took control of the moment:
That screen is flashing up there 30 seconds like I care about that screen right now, huh? I got tumors all over my body. I'm worried about some guy in the back going, '30 seconds'?
As the night neared its end, Valvano spoke the four-word phrase that's still associated with him:
And its motto is, 'Don't give up. Don't ever give up.' And that's what I'm going to try to do every minute that I have left.
At the end of his speech, Valvano declared victory over the cancer he knew would take his life:
Cancer can take away all my physical abilities. It cannot touch my mind. It cannot touch my heart. And it cannot touch my soul. And those three things are going to carry on forever.
Valvano's words have become an inspiration not just for anyone battling cancer, but for any individuals going through what seems like an impossible challenge. These quotes and others echo throughout ESPN's V Week during the college basketball season.
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Jim Valvano 3 thingsOne of the most memorable points of Valvano's speech was his list of three things that people should do every day.
No. 1 is laugh. You should laugh every day. No. 2 is think. You should spend some time in thought. And No. 3 is you should have your emotions moved to tears. Could be happiness or joy, but think about it: If you laugh, you think, and you cry, that's a full day. That's a heck of a day. You do that seven days a week, you're going to have something special.
Laughing, thinking, and crying were Valvano's idea of a complete day, and his speech forced listeners to do all three. Later in the speech, Valvano named "three things" cancer couldn't affect: His mind, his heart, and his soul.
Jim Valvano speech transcriptBelow is the full transcript of Valvano's 1993 ESPYs speech.
I can't tell you what an honor it is to even be mentioned the same breath with Arthur Ashe. This is something I certainly will treasure forever. But as was said on the tape, and also, I don't have one of those things going with the cue cards, so I'm going to speak longer than anybody else who's spoken tonight. That's the way it goes. Time is very precious to me. I don't know how much I have left and I have some things that I would like to say. Hopefully at the end, I'll have something that will be important to other people, too, but I can't help it. Now when I'm fighting cancer, everybody knows that, and people ask me all the time about how you go through your life and, "How's your day?"
And nothing has changed for me, as Dick said. I'm a very emotional, passionate man. I can't help it, that's being the son of Rocco and Angelina Valvano. It comes with the territory, right? We hug, we kiss, we love.
And when people say to me, "How do you get through life?" Each day's the same thing. To me, there are three things we all should do every day. If we do this every day of our life, you're going to … What a wonderful … Number one is laugh. You should laugh every day. Number two is think, you should spend some time in thought. And number three is you should have your emotions moved to tears. Could be happiness or joy, but think about it. If you laugh, you think, and you cry, that's a full day. That's a heck of a day. You do that seven days a week, you're going to have something special.
And so, I can't help … I rode on the plane up today with Mike Krzyzewski, my good friend, and a wonderful coach. What people don't realize, he's a 10 times better person than he is a coach and we know he's a great coach. He's meant a lot to me in these last five or six months with my battle. But when I look at Mike, I think we competed against each others as players. I coached against him 15 years, and I always have to think about what's important in life. To me, it's three things: where you started, where you are, and where you're going to be. Those are the three things that I try and do every day. And when I think about getting up and giving a speech, I can't help it. I have to remember the first speech I ever gave. I was coaching at Rutgers University. That was my first job.
And I was the freshman coach. That's when freshmen played on freshmen teams. And I was so fired up about my first job. I see Lou Holtz, Coach Holtz here. What was it like the first job you had, right? The very first time you stood in the locker room to give a pep talk. That's a special place, the locker room, for a coach to give a talk. So my idol as a coach was Vince Lombardi. And I read this book called Commitment to Excellence by Vince Lombardi. And in the book, Lombardi talked about the first time he spoke before his Green Bay Packer team in a locker room, they were perennial losers. And I'm reading this, and Lombardi said, he was thinking, "Should it be a long talk? A short talk?" But he wanted to be emotionally, so he said, Be brief."
And this is what he did. Normally, you get in a locker room, I don't know, 25 minutes, a half hour before the team takes the field. You do your little X and O's, and then you give the great Knute Rockne talk, we all do. Speech number 84, you pull them right out, you get ready, get your squad ready. Was the first one I ever gave. And I read this thing, Lombardi, what he said was, he didn't go in, he waited. His team was wondering, "Where is he? Where's this great coach?" He's not there. 10 minutes, he's still not there. Three minutes before they have to take the field, Lombardi comes in, bangs the door open, and I think you all remember what great presence he had, right? Great presence. And he walked in and he just walked back and forth like this, just staring at the players. And he said, "All eyes on me."
And I'm reading this in his book, I'm getting a picture of Vince Lombardi before his first game. And he said, "Gentlemen, we will be successful this year. You can focus on three things and three things only. Your family, your religion, and the Green Bay Packers." And the rest of them, they knocked the walls down, the rest was history. I said, "That's beautiful! I'm going to do that." Your family, your religion and Rutgers basketball. That's it. I had it. Listen, I'm 21 years old. The kids I'm coaching are 19, all right? And I'm going to be the greatest coach in the world, the next Lombardi. And I'm practicing right beside the locker room, the manager's telling me, "You gotta go in." Not yet, not yet. Family, religion, Rutgers basketball. All eyes on me. I got it, I got it.
And now finally he said, "Three minutes!" I said, "Fine." True story, I go to knock the doors open just like Lombardi. Boom. It didn't open. I almost broke my arm. It didn't open, now I'm down, the players are looking. "Yo, coach. Help the coach up, help him up." And now I did like Lombardi, I walked back and forth, and I was going like that with my arm, get the feeling back in it. And finally I said, "Gentlemen, all eyes on me." and these kids wanted to play, they're 19, "Let's go." I said, "Gentlemen, we'll be successful this year. If you could focus on three things and three things only." I said, "Your family, your religion, and the Green Bay Packers." I did that. I remember that.
I remember where I came from. It's so important to know where you are. I know where I am right now. How do you go from where you are to where you want to be? And I think you have to have an enthusiasm for life. You have to have a dream, a goal you have to be willing to work for.
I talked about my family. My family is so important. People think I have courage. The courage in my family is my wife Pam, my three daughters here, Nicole, Jamie, Leanne, my mom who is right here, too.
I just got one last thing. I urge all of you, all of you, to enjoy your life, the precious moments you have to spend each day with some laughter and some thought, to get your emotions going, to be enthusiastic every day. Ralph Waldo Emerson said, "Nothing great can be accomplished without enthusiasm to keep your dreams alive in spite of problems." Whatever you have, the ability to be able to work hard for your dreams to come true, to become a reality. Now I look at where I am now and I know what I want to do. What I would like to be able to do is to spend whatever time I have left and to give maybe some hope to others. The Arthur Ashe foundation is a wonderful thing. And AIDS, the amount of money pouring in for AIDS is not enough, but it is significant.
But if I told you it's 10 times the amount that goes in for cancer research, I also tell you that 500,000 people will die this year of cancer. And I'll also tell you that one in every four will be afflicted with this disease. And yet somehow we seem to have put it in a little bit of the back burner. I want to bring it back on the front table. We need your help. I need your help. We need money for research. It may not save my life, it may save my children's lives. It may save someone you love. And it's important. And ESPN has been so kind to support me in this endeavor and allow me to announce tonight that with ESPN's support, which means what? Their money, and their dollars, and they're helping me. We are starting the Jimmy V Foundation for cancer research.
And its motto is, "Don't give up. Don't ever give up." And that's what I'm going to try to do every minute that I have left. I will thank God for the day and the moment I have. And if you see me smile and maybe give me a hug cause that's important to me, too. But try if you can, to support, whether it's AIDS or the cancer foundation, so that someone else might survive, might prosper, and might actually be cured of this dreaded disease.
I can't thank ESPN enough for allowing this to happen and I'm going to work as hard as I can for cancer research. And hopefully we'll be … maybe we'll have some cures and some breakthroughs, and I'd like to think I'm gonna fight my brains out to be back here again next year for the Arthur Ashe recipient. I want to give it next year.
I know I've got to go. I've got to go, and I got one last thing. I've said it before and I'm gonna say it again. Cancer can take away all my physical abilities. It cannot touch my mind. It cannot touch my heart. And it cannot touch my soul. And those three things are going to carry on forever. I thank you and God bless y'all.
What kind of cancer did Jim Valvano have?Valvano was diagnosed with adenocarcinoma in June 1992. The cancer was metastatic, meaning it had spread to other parts of the body. In Valvano's case, it spread to his back. Doctors could not determine the exact origin of his cancer.
Valvano first discovered something was wrong when he felt pain during a golf outing. He didn't realize it was serious until his spine appeared abnormal during an MRI. It wasn't long after that it became clear Valvano was dealing with an illness that would likely take his life.
Despite the cancer leaving Valvano in tremendous pain, he still carried out his duties as a college basketball analyst during the 1992-93 season and remained in the public eye until the weeks leading up to his death.
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How long after Jimmy V's speech did he die?Valvano died on Apr. 28, 1993, less than two months after his ESPYS speech on Mar. 4. The speech served as his final public appearance, as Valvano wasn't able to make it to Yankee Stadium in April despite being scheduled to throw out a first pitch.
Valvano didn't necessarily look like he was terminally ill during his speech, at least at first glance, and one reason for that might be that he didn't lose his hair during cancer treatment despite expectations that he would.
Jimmy V foundationValvano left a lasting legacy through his words, but he made it clear he wanted his legacy to be cancer research and treatments and, ultimately, a cure. That was what prompted him to found the V Foundation.
"I can't thank ESPN enough for allowing this to happen and I'm going to work as hard as I can for cancer research. And hopefully we'll be … maybe we'll have some cures and some breakthroughs," Valvano told the ESPYs crowd.
While a cure still eludes the world, the V Foundation for Cancer Research continues to raise money to bring that day closer. The foundation says it has awarded more than $310 million in grants nationwide since 1993, and it has been promoted by college basketball legends including Valvano's personal friends Mike Krzyzewski and Dick Vitale.
ESPN holds an annual "V Week" shortly after Thanksgiving, encouraging donations and intertwining college basketball programming with features that document the work the V Foundation has done.
Each advancement in cancer treatment is a reminder of the movement Valvano launched and the progress that is still ahead of the world.
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