What's the # 1 most common cancer in America? Is it skin cancer? Or lung?!
Question: What's the # 1 most common cancer in America!? Is it skin cancer!? Or lung!?
Answers:
Lung cancer - if you mean serious, life threatening cancers
Rob and Barb are correct that skin cancer is most common, but data collected by the ACS (American Cancer Society) usually excludes the non-melanoma skin cancers since these are rarely a threat to life - they are usually cured with adequate surgical excision!.
http://www!.cancer!.org/downloads/STT/2008!.!.!.
Here's the ACS data for 2008 (estimated) if you are interested:
#1 Lung Cancers - 215,020 cases expected this year (2008)
#2 prostate cancers - 186,320 cases
#3 breast cancers - 184,450 cases
#4 colon cancers - 108,070 cases
Many people with breast, colon, and prostate cancers are cured, so - - If you want to know the most common Cancer death in the U!.S!. - -
#1 by far is Lung cancer - 161,840 deaths expected this year
[and about 90% of these are caused by smoking, so they are preventable deaths]
#2 well below is Colon cancer - 49,960 deaths
#3 Breast cancer - 40,930 deaths
#4 Pancreas cancer - 34,290 deaths
#5 Prostate cancer - 28,660 deaths
Lung cancer deaths exceed the next four most common cancer deaths combined - and most are preventable - if people would not smoke !Www@Answer-Health@Com
Rob and Barb are correct that skin cancer is most common, but data collected by the ACS (American Cancer Society) usually excludes the non-melanoma skin cancers since these are rarely a threat to life - they are usually cured with adequate surgical excision!.
http://www!.cancer!.org/downloads/STT/2008!.!.!.
Here's the ACS data for 2008 (estimated) if you are interested:
#1 Lung Cancers - 215,020 cases expected this year (2008)
#2 prostate cancers - 186,320 cases
#3 breast cancers - 184,450 cases
#4 colon cancers - 108,070 cases
Many people with breast, colon, and prostate cancers are cured, so - - If you want to know the most common Cancer death in the U!.S!. - -
#1 by far is Lung cancer - 161,840 deaths expected this year
[and about 90% of these are caused by smoking, so they are preventable deaths]
#2 well below is Colon cancer - 49,960 deaths
#3 Breast cancer - 40,930 deaths
#4 Pancreas cancer - 34,290 deaths
#5 Prostate cancer - 28,660 deaths
Lung cancer deaths exceed the next four most common cancer deaths combined - and most are preventable - if people would not smoke !Www@Answer-Health@Com
The most common type of cancer on the list is nonmelanoma skin cancer, with more than 1,000,000 new cases expected in the United States in 2008!. Nonmelanoma skin cancers represent about half of all cancers diagnosed in this country!. Www@Answer-Health@Com
neither
its breast cancer
men and women can both get it!.!.!.
and it has a high statisticWww@Answer-Health@Com
its breast cancer
men and women can both get it!.!.!.
and it has a high statisticWww@Answer-Health@Com
SkinWww@Answer-Health@Com