This Senate resolution designates November 2025 as "National Lung Cancer Awareness Month." It also designates the first week of November 2025 as "National Women's Lung Cancer Awareness Week" and the second Saturday of November 2025 as "National Lung Cancer Screening Day." The resolution supports awareness, education, and research on reducing lung cancer risk, screening, treatment, and lung cancer in people who have never smoked and in minority groups. The text lists data and concerns about lung cancer rates, survival by stage, screening gaps, veteran risk, smoking and secondhand smoke, stigma, and advances in biomarkers and therapies.
The resolution asks people and groups to observe the month with awareness and education activities. It promotes information about low-dose CT lung cancer screening, earlier diagnosis, and research. It highlights groups with higher risk or lower screening rates, including veterans, Black men, nonwhite individuals, women who never smoked, and people who never smoked.
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The resolution's sponsors and text emphasize the importance of early detection, lung cancer screening, treatment, risk reduction, and research. It frames public education and targeted outreach (for example to veterans and minority populations) as ways to increase early diagnosis and improve outcomes.
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