the u.s. now spending three times the research dollars on breast cancer than it does on cancer of the lung. wait a minute, this is the biggest killer and it has the least funding. reporter: harper says it s the social stigma of smoking that hinders progress in defeating lung cancer. but the other hard fact is that 15% of those diagnosed with lung cancer never smoked. i never smoked, my mother never smoked, she had the same kind of cancer. reporter: cancer has spread to her brain and harper was given three to six months to live nearly a year and a half ago. now every day is a gift, fighting for lung cancer funding and she says refusing to go to her funeral until she dies. jim avila, abc news, capitol hill. i love that line. refusing to go to her funeral. unbelievable. amazing, strong woman. she takes regular medication, that her husband makes sure that she takes. she does some acupuncture. she also does body scans twice a year just to have things checked out. because cance
if we go back two weeks in the investigation, w had the malaysians coming out and saying there was a deliberate act that took place aboard the flight tech of that aircraft. and we need to better understand that act in order to try to prevent it happening again. but the important thing from an aviation security perspective, because if we are talking about the deliberate act, now it could be that it wasn t a criminal act. but if it was a criminal act, we need to think about how we re actually addressing airport security worldwide. and i m afraid it s always reactive. we always try to sort of put on the band-aid after the event. when actually we can be much more proactive. if you go back to locker we biln am, we started taking shoes off. underpants bomber we started using body scans. we need to start profiling passengers, profiling crew,
makers have showed up in yemen where al seri is located. if you combine the two groups, they might get there. what changes should the tsa be making and what should passengers do differently, if anything? tsa is doing a good job. they were using a lot of more swabs. you can pick up nitrates. they are doing a great job on that. the israelis profile people. we can t do that in the united states. we can do full body scans. they can look at the passengers and see who they are and pull people apart, a side that don t look right but there s so many people traveling. if one of these planes do go down and they know about it in advance, it would be unacceptable. i think we re doing all of the
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