From left: Dr. Claudia Henschke; Dr. David Yankelevitz, professor of radiology; Russell Mirman, a volunteer for the Lung Cancer Society of Long Island; Selma Rosen, holding the proclamation by Gov. Pataki calling November 2006 as Lung Cancer Awareness Month; and Meyer Rosen, Ms. Rosen's husband.
Selma Rosen, an advocate of lung cancer screening and a patient of NewYork-Presbyterian Hospital/Weill Cornell, recently donated $10,000 to Weill Cornell's Foundation for Lung Cancer: Early Detection, Prevention and Treatment, on behalf of the Lung Cancer Society of Long Island and Ms. Rosen's project with Landmark Education's Self Expression and Leadership Program.
The Foundation for Lung Cancer: Early Detection, Prevention and Treatment is a group of international specialists with a common research goal of early cancer detection coordinated at Weill Cornell and led in part by Dr. Claudia Henschke, professor of radiology at Weill Cornell and chief of the Division of Chest Imaging and the Division of Health-Care Policy and Technology Assessment at NewYork-Presbyterian.
The Lung Cancer Society of Long Island was founded in 2001 as a not-for-profit organization advocating the early detection, research, education and prevention of lung cancer.