November often feels like a busy month--full of holiday plans, travel, and family gatherings--but at the University of Arkansas for Medical Sciences (UAMS), it's also a time for action. November is National Lung Cancer Awareness Month, and for Arkansas, that awareness couldn't be more urgent.

Lung cancer is the No. 1 cancer killer in Arkansas. Our state consistently ranks among the top three in the nation for new lung cancer cases, and we have one of the lowest survival rates. Only about 22 percent of Arkansans diagnosed with lung cancer live five years past their diagnosis, compared to 28 percent nationally.

As a surgeon who sees what lung cancer looks like up close, these numbers represent devastated families who will miss their loved ones this holiday season, all from a disease that i

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