Is it true that one in three people get diagnosed with cancer in their lifetime?!
Question: That sounds amazingly high. What percentage of people actually die from cancer?
Answers: That sounds amazingly high. What percentage of people actually die from cancer?
Yes, when you count skin cancers. This percentage is actually increasing since people are now living longer. The longer you live the more opportunity you have to develop cancer. I think if you are going to look into what percentage of people die from cancer you would have to divide this number into people who died within a year of diagnosis, within five years, within ten years, within twenty years and so on because if you are diagnosed with cancer at say 55 and then have several recurrences after long remissions of 5-10 years each time, then if you die of cancer at 75 you have still had an opportunity for a very fulfilling life despite dying from cancer.
Simple basal and squamous cell skin cancers have a very high cure rate - above 85% for basal cell and almost as high for simple squamous cell. This skews cancer death statistics so often simple skin cancers are not included in cancer death statistics.
It's really worse than that for males, where one in two men will be diagnosed with cancer at some point in their lifetime, and that statistic actually does not include skin cancers except for melanoma. ("All sites" excludes basal and squamous cell skin cancers and in situ cancers except urinary bladder.)
in 2004 (the most recent date for which relatively accurate results are available) cancer death rates topped 5600 per 100,000 people diagnosed. Breast, prostate and lung were most commonly diagnosed, with lung cancer the leading cause of death in both sexes. (The best reason of all not to start smoking, or to quit if you currently smoke.)
One in 4 men and one in five women will die of cancer, yet heart disease is still the leading cause of death in the US.
Prostate cancer.. Among elerly men, if you don't die of it, you'll die with it.