The Joan Gaeta Lung Cancer Foundation

Cause Area

  • Advocacy & Human Rights
  • Health & Medicine

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860 Johnson Ferry RoadSuite 140-373Atlanta, GA 30342 United States
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Mission Statement

To raise awareness of lung cancer in order to educate the pubic and raise research funds to find a cure.

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Established in the fall of 2007, The Joan Gaeta Lung Cancer Foundation was created by her husband and children to raise awareness of the disease, to educate the public, and to raise research funds for a cure.

A life long non-smoker, Joan was a devoted wife, teacher, and mother of five. Diagnosed in early 2004, she fought a three and a half year battle before succumbing to the cancer in July of 2007.

During that time, Joan stressed the need for greater awareness of lung cancer (the number one cancer killer in the world), its low survival rate, and its tragic lack of research funds. She was most passionate about eliminating the stigma of the disease, since lung cancer also strikes non-smokers at a high rate.

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