The White Ribbon Project

Nashville, The White Ribbon Project is coming your way! 🫁🤍✨

We are grateful to GO2 for Lung Cancer for the opportunity to partner at the GO2 Nashville 5K Walk/Run this Saturday, August 29.

A huge shoutout to Leslie LaChance for officially representing The White Ribbon Project at this event. Leslie will have TheWRP white ribbons available for distribution. We are proud to provide these symbols of awareness, hope, support, and community free of charge for everyone affected by lung cancer.

When: Saturday, August 29, 2026
Registration/check-in begins at 7:30 AM

Where: Centennial Park – Parthenon Ellipse Oval Lawn
2500 West End Ave, Nashville, TN

Your participation and fundraising help provide one-on-one assistance, screening and treatment navigation, and support research to accelerate cures and change this disease from one of stigma to one of hope.

Thank you, GO2, and thank you, Leslie, for helping carry this mission forward in Nashville.

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

We are grateful to Lisa Spain and Rexanna's Foundation for sharing this conversation and helping bring more awareness, hope, and heart to the lung cancer community.

One voice turned into many, and a movement, The White Ribbon Project was born in 2020 and keeps growing!

Every story shared matters. Every conversation helps someone feel less alone. Every effort to raise awareness moves us closer to a world where lung cancer is better understood, less stigmatized, and more fully supported.

Thank you, Lisa, for your kindness, your work, and your commitment to the lung cancer community.

Please watch and share:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=n8FutOcbb0w

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

She Was Told to Get Her Affairs in Order — Then She Started a Movement In this episode of the Hope Forward Podcast, host Lisa Spain sits d...

This is what living with lung cancer looks like.

Laurel’s stage IV EGFR lung cancer diagnosis came out of nowhere. No cough. No wheeze. No shortness of breath. Her lungs sounded clear.

It started with vision and cognitive changes. Trouble navigating the city where she was born, losing words, and her brain not registering what she saw in her left field of vision.

An eye exam lead to an MRI in the ER. The ER lead to scans, a biopsy, and a diagnosis: stage IV lung cancer with a primary tumor in her left upper lobe, lesions in both lungs, 11 brain metastases, spine metastases, and an adrenal metastasis.

Two weeks earlier, Laurel had been traveling in France and Spain.

That is lung cancer. It can be silent. It can be sneaky. It can completely upend a life.

But Laurel is still doing all the things.

She pursued biomarker testing, started osimertinib and chemotherapy at , sought a second opinion at UT MD Anderson Cancer Center, asked hard questions, advocated for herself, went camping, made treatment decisions, and kept living.

And she recently rode in , Hutch Cancer Center’s annual fundraiser, raising more than $7,000 and helping contribute to the incredible $7.4 million raised for cancer research.

That is hope in motion.
That is advocacy in action.
That is Laurel, LIVING WITH LUNG CANCER.

Research matters. Biomarker testing matters. Self-advocacy matters. And every breathtaking moment matters.

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

Survivorship matters.

We are grateful to GO2 for Lung Cancer for creating space to talk about survivorship and surveillance at the September 15 Lung Cancer Living Room.

People are living longer with and beyond lung cancer. That is a beautiful gift.

But living longer means we need to do better.

Better support.
Better surveillance.
Better care for late effects.
Better conversations about scanxiety, heart health, breathing, fatigue, and life after treatment ends, or never ends.

Survivorship is not just the scan.

It is the whole person.

Join this important conversation:
https://events.go2.org/2026SeptLivingRoom

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

Check out the upcoming Lung Cancer Living Room®: Survivorship and Surveillance! I'll be tuning in to the Lung Cancer Living Room®: Survivorship and Surveillance. If you or a loved one is facing a diagnosis, I highly recommend joining too!

Please join us for The White Ribbon Project Community Call this Saturday, August 15, from 12:00–1:00 PM EST.

We have a full and meaningful agenda, and we are grateful for the people who will be sharing updates, research, advocacy, and lived experience with our community.

Katie Morello from GO2 for Lung Cancer will join us to share updates on important upcoming events and opportunities.

Kyle Concannon, MD, Assistant Professor of Medicine-Medical Oncology at the University of Colorado Anschutz Cancer Center, will share updates about his research.

Cheryl Lecroy, Survivor Liaison at Lung Cancer Initiative of North Carolina, will have meaningful updates and reflections to share with the community.

Camila Bermúdez, an aspiring medical student and young stage IV lung cancer patient in Puerto Rico, will share her amazing story, her recent launch into advocacy, and the tremendous reach she is already having.

ALCSI’s Timothy Hwang will provide updates.

These calls are meant to bring us together — patients, survivors, care partners, advocates, clinicians, researchers, and friends, to share information, build community, and remind one another that no one has to face lung cancer alone.

We hope you can join us.

Join Zoom Meeting

https://zoom.us/j/95747503292?pwd=yKiCLoz3naplGcYfpXVDQlt9oTZ2Ck.1

Meeting ID: 957 4750 3292

Passcode: 814387

It was such an honor to be part of such a warm, caring, and uplifting event with Lung Cancer Initiative of North Carolina at Azalea Station in Wilmington.

Thank you to the LCI team for welcoming The White Ribbon Project founders and creating space for them to share their story, mission, and the meaning behind the white ribbon.

There is something powerful about being in a room filled with people who truly care — people who understand that lung cancer awareness, education, support, and stigma reduction all matter.

Working together with Lung Cancer Initiative has been such a pleasure. Collaborating with a like-minded organization for the greater good feels good and does good.

This is how change happens.
Through partnership, community, shared purpose, and meaningful actions.�
Together, we will continue raising awareness, supporting people affected by lung cancer, changing the public perception of this disease, and making a positive impact.

Thank you, Lung Cancer Initiative of North Carolina, for your kindness, leadership, and continued commitment to this community.

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

Our hearts are full and we are so grateful to End Lung Cancer Now at for hosting such a beautiful and meaningful World Lung Cancer Day event on Wednesday, July 29. 🫁🤍🌎

ELCN continues to lead the way in showing what lung cancer awareness can and should look like: visible, hopeful, action-oriented, community-centered, and focused on saving lives.

Now let’s follow their lead.

World Lung Cancer Day is August 1. This day matters. It deserves to be acknowledged, shared, and celebrated in every cancer center, hospital, clinic, community, and home.

Please share this post with your cancer care team. Tag your oncologists, nurses, navigators, cancer centers, industry leaders, family, and friends. Let them know that August 1 is a day to recognize everyone affected by lung cancer and to raise awareness that can save lives.

Do something special on 8/1. Here are some ideas, but do not limit yourself to these:

Make a social media post.�
Decorate your yard.�
Raise your white ribbons.�
Share your breathtaking moments living with lung cancer.�
Honor someone you love.�
Talk about screening.�
Talk about research.�
Talk about hope.�
Talk about the truth: anyone with lungs can get lung cancer, and no one ever deserves it.

Thank you, ELCN and IU Simon, for leading with vision, heart, and action.

Let’s spread awareness across the country and around the world.