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.

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Here's a surprising fact: If you are a man, you can also get tumors in your breasts.

Click here to read about breast cancer facts.

How come males can get breast cancer? Well, 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?

• 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 more will be diagnosed by the year 2020.

That is a 50% increase of new cancer cases. Thus, there is real need...

to get our act together,

to take a stand against it,

to choose prevention over cure, and

to practice healthy habits such as eating a healthy diet, being physically active and quitting vices such as smoking.

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