WTOP/Luke Lukert

WTOP/Luke Lukert

WTOP/Luke Lukert

WTOP/Luke Lukert

WTOP/Luke Lukert

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If you head down to the National Mall over the next two weeks, you’ll notice 60,000 white and American flags blanketing the lawn in front of the Capitol. It is an installation that hopes to hammer home the importance of early detection during Lung Cancer Awareness Month.

“Anyone with lungs can get lung cancer,” said Terri Ann DiJulio, a 20-year survivor of lung cancer who has received the diagnosis three times.

“I’m one of six people in my family to be diagnosed, and I’m the definition of early detection saves lives.”

Each of the 60,000 flags on the mall represents two deaths seen every year from lung cancer. That is more than colorectal and pancreatic cancers combined

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