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November is Lung Cancer Awareness Month

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Friday, November 11, 2016
November is Lung Cancer Awareness Month

RALEIGH (WTVD) -- In North Carolina, 22 people are diagnosed with lung cancer every day. The five year survival rate is just 18%, a rate that has changed very little since the 1970's.



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