American Cancer Society Statistics for 2007
January 19, 2007
Jan. 2007--A recent report from the American Cancer Society (ACS) states that childhood cancer is rare, and that the mortality rates for childhood cancers (up to age 14) have been reduced by 48 per cent since 1975. The ACS estimates that 10,400 cases of childhood cancer will be diagnosed in 2007, and 1,545 American children will die of cancer in 2007, mostly from leukemia.
The four cancers likely to be the biggest killers in 2007 will be: lung cancer, prostate cancer, breast cancer and colon cancer. Click Here to view the full ACS report.
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January 19, 2007
Jan. 2007--A recent report from the American Cancer Society (ACS) states that childhood cancer is rare, and that the mortality rates for childhood cancers (up to age 14) have been reduced by 48 per cent since 1975. The ACS estimates that 10,400 cases of childhood cancer will be diagnosed in 2007, and 1,545 American children will die of cancer in 2007, mostly from leukemia.
The four cancers likely to be the biggest killers in 2007 will be: lung cancer, prostate cancer, breast cancer and colon cancer. Click Here to view the full ACS report.
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