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Cancer Survivorship in The U.S. Triples

RuggedElegantLiving.com:

More and more Americans are surviving cancer, a disease that was previously perceived as a death sentence for those diagnosed with it.

Cancer is the second leading cause of death in the U.S. after heart disease. The four top cancer killers: lung, colon, breast and prostate.

The American Cancer Society claims that cancer accounts for one in every four deaths in the U.S. More than 1,500 lives a day are lost to cancer.

While the number of U.S. cancer cases are expected to continue to increase, the top four killer cancers will decrease, the cancer society predicts.

Yesterday, the National Cancer Institute (NCI) and the the federal Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) published findings from a 1971-2001 U.S. "Cancer Survivorship" study. The results of these findings: The number of Americans surviving cancer climbed more than threefold, from 3 million to 9.8 million, in the past 30 years.

Posted by Jennifer King at June 26, 2004 10:16 AM | TrackBack
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