Cancer is a disease that is typically caused by the growth and spread of abnormal cells. If cancer can’t be contained by treatment, it can cause death. The causes of cancer can vary and are usually divided into two categories:
1. External Factors – tobacco, chemicals, radiation and infection
2. Internal Factors – hereditary mutations, hormones, immune conditions and metabolic mutations
Most cancer is treatable and managed through surgery, radiation, chemotherapy, hormones and immunotherapy. However, some cancers are terminal and cause death. Below are listed the various types of cancer and mortality rates:*
- Brain cancer – 13,100 deaths
- Breast cancer – 40,000 deaths
- Colon & rectum cancer – 56,600 deaths
- Leukemia – 21,700 deaths
- Liver cancer – 14,100 deaths
- Lung cancer – 154,900 deaths
- Lymphoma – 25,800 deaths
- Ovarian cancer – 13,900 deaths
- Pancreatic cancer – 29,700 deaths
- Prostate cancer – 30,200 deaths
According to the National Cancer Society: “This year about 555,500 Americans are expected to die of cancer, more than 1,500 people a day. Cancer is the second leading cause of death in the US, exceeded only by heart disease. In the US, 1 of every 4 deaths is from cancer.”*
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*(National Cancer Society – Cancer Facts & Figures 2002)