The White Ribbon Project

This is grassroots advocacy in action.

We are so grateful to Penny Wagnon & Tiffany Fagnani for the hard work, planning, heart, and leadership that made the 2nd Annual The White Ribbon Project Build possible.

A beautiful day became something even more meaningful: a day of hope, resilience, community, and lung cancer awareness.

Thank you to everyone who showed up, painted, shared, supported, and helped spread the message that people affected by lung cancer are not alone.

We are also grateful for the generous support from Wegmans in Downingtown, Giant Cumberland Parkway and Dickson City, America Pie, and Wawa, and to John Matthews and Beth Solomon from Ride Hard Breathe Easy for joining and helping grow awareness. Thank you also to Lou Valentine for stopping by and showing support.

This is how awareness grows, community is built, and how we change the public perception of lung cancer.

If you are interested in hosting a White Ribbon Project build or awareness event in your own community, we are happy to help with planning and action steps. Please reach out to us at:[email protected]

Anyone with lungs can get lung cancer, and no one ever deserves it. 🤍✨🫁

We are deeply grateful to American College of Chest Physicians for highlighting The White Ribbon Project and the power of grassroots advocacy.

What began with one wooden white ribbon on our front door has grown into a global movement to change the public perception of lung cancer, erase stigma, increase awareness, and remind every person affected by this disease that they are not alone.

Grassroots advocacy matters because it begins with lived experience, love, frustration, hope, and the belief that something must change.

Thank you to CHEST for helping amplify this message and for recognizing that lung cancer advocacy belongs everywhere, in homes, clinics, hospitals, communities, conferences, and conversations.

Together, we can grow awareness exponentially.

Anyone with lungs can get lung cancer, and no one ever deserves it. 🤍✨🫁

chestnet.org/guidelines-and-topic-collections/publications/chest-advocates/got-lungs

Got Lungs? | CHEST Advocates - American College of Chest Physicians Heidi and Pierre Onda, founders of The White Ribbon Project, are raising awareness about lung cancer, advocating for increased screening eligibility, and spreading hope through their lived experiences.

When immunotherapy stops working, patients need more options.

That is why the AURORA phase 3 clinical trial matters.

This trial is studying a new approach for people with advanced non-small cell lung cancer whose cancer has continued to grow after immunotherapy and chemotherapy. One of many groups that urgently needs better choices.

Hope is growing because we are seeing more lung cancer research efforts come to life. New trials, new approaches, and new questions are moving the field forward in ways that once felt impossible.

Advocates are part of that progress. The insights, urgency, stories, and awareness efforts of people affected by lung cancer help shape conversations, push research forward, and remind everyone what is truly at stake.

Progress does not happen by accident. It happens because researchers, clinicians, patients, care partners, advocates, and families keep asking: What next? What more? How can we do better?

More options mean more hope.
More research means more time, which means everything.

Anyone with lungs can get lung cancer, and no one ever deserves it. 🤍✨🫁

https://www.curetoday.com/view/new-aurora-trial-tests-lung-cancer-drug-after-immunotherapy-fails

New AURORA Trial Tests Lung Cancer Drug After Immunotherapy Fails | CURE AURORA, a phase 3 trial, is testing aglatimagene besadenovec plus Keytruda in patients with lung cancer who progressed on immunotherapy.