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Cancer Facts:
PEDIATRIC
CANCERS
ADULT
CANCERS
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- About
1,334,100 new cancer cases are expected to be diagnosed in 2003. Duringthis
same year, about 556,500 Americans are expected to die from their disease,
more than 1,500 a day.
Source: National Cancer Institute (www.cancer.gov)
and American Cancer Society Cancer Facts & Figures 2003
- Breast
– “Breast cancer is the most common form of cancer among
women in the United States. The incidence of breast cancer has been
rising for the past two decades, while mortality has remained relatively
stable since the 1950s…One in eight women in the United States
(approximately 12.8 percent) will develop breast cancer during her lifetime.”
- Prostate
– “Prostate cancer is the leading cancer diagnosed among
men in the United States. Prostate cancer incidence has been increasing
rapidly in recent years.”
- Lung
– “Cancer of the lung and bronchus is the second most common
cancer among both men and women and is the leading cause of cancer death
in both sexes.”
- Colon/Rectum
– “Cancers of the colon and rectum are the fourth most commonly
diagnosed cancers and rank second among cancer deaths in the United
States.”
- “Regarding
treatments already in use, the United States lacks a national data system
for tracking those that reflect the best quality of care. Therefore,
for most cancers (the National Cancer Institute) cannot yet illustrate
with national data the extent to which cancer patients and their doctors
are using the best treatments. This situation will begin to change in
the near future.”
- Source: National
Cancer Institute, Cancer.Gov
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