Statistics for Cancer Death and Survival Statistics
Look at the statistics for cancer and you will see that cancer doesn’t discriminate. Anyone can be one of its victims. You can either be a part of death or survival statistics.
It strikes anybody regardless of . . .
the color of your skin or shape of your eyes
your gender
whether you are 25 or 50
your socio-economic status
what side of the world you live in.
And do you that even if you are a man, you can also get tumors in your breasts?
How come males can get breast cancer? Well, it's because men have breast tissues, too. Breast cancer is one of the common types but tumors that develop in a man's breasts are quite rare.
Statistics also show that most male breast cancer cases are of the invasive type. An example of a male breast cancer survivor is an actor -- Richard Roundtree.
Today, the incidence of cancer cases is significantly on the rise. During the past 20 years, the age group of 35-55 has been the major incidence group.
How many people have cancer?
Statistics from the National Cancer Institute disclose that the estimated new cases and deaths from the disease in the United States alone for 2008 are . . .
almost 1,500,000 new cases excluding non-melanoma skin cancers
565,650 deaths and
one in 3 people gets it over their lifetime.
Approximately 1,500 people die from the disease everyday in the United States. It is now the second cause of death due to a disease. Statistics for cancer further report that about 3,400 people are diagnosed with it each day in America.
The World Health Organization also estimates that 10M cases are diagnosed worldwide every year. And 15M cases more will be diagnosed by the year 2020.
That is a 50% increase of new cancer cases. Thus, there is real need . . .
