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FACTS AND FIGURES
ABOUT CANCER
Updated
March 2001
DID YOU KNOW THAT. . . . . . . . . . .
8,900,000 people are alive today as a result of progress in cancer
research.
Over the past 30 years, the five year cancer survival rate has risen
from 38% to 59%.
Mortality rates have declined 57% since the early 1970s.
1 in 2 males and 1 in 3 females will develop cancer over his or her
lifetime.
One in every 8 women will be diagnosed with breast cancer during her
lifetime.
552,200 Americans who will die this year from cancer. Annual cancer
deaths exceed all U.S. combat deaths in all of the wars in this century.
SINCE 1990. . . . . . . . . .
15 million new cases of cancer were diagnosed.
5 million people have died from cancer.
THIS YEAR. . . . . . . . . .
About 1,268,000 people will be diagnosed with cancer.
About 553,400 people will die from cancer.
About 354,244 people will die whose deaths could have been prevented
with fully funded prevention programs.
About 8,600 children will be diagnosed with cancer and 1,600 children
will die from cancer - the leading cause of death by disease for children
under age 15.
About 169,500 people will be diagnosed with lung cancer and 157,400
people with lung cancer -a mostly preventable disease - will die.
192,200 women will be diagnosed with breast cancer and 40,200 will die.
198,100 men will be diagnosed with prostate cancer and an estimated
31,500 men will die of the disease.
Nearly 80% of all cancers will be diagnosed in people over age 65.
One out of every 4 deaths in the United States will be from cancer.
TODAY ALONE. . . . . . . . . .
More than 1,500 people will die from cancer.
About 3,500 people will be diagnosed with cancer.
RIGHT NOW -- In about the time it took for you to read this fact
sheet:
Five more people were diagnosed with cancer.
Two more people died from cancer.
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