Throughout the entire world, it is estimated that a total of 8.2 million people die each year from cancer. It is one of the most common causes of death in the world.
In the UK in 2008, there were 156,723 deaths from cancer.
lung cancer is in the lungs, prostate cancer is in the prostate.
57,620,000 deaths per year This is based on a mortality rate of 8.6 deaths per 1,000 people and a world population of 6.7 billion people.
Minority women and women of low socioeconomic status have higher rates of cervical cancer and an increased mortality rate.
1 in 35 people that get breast cancer will die
In the United States, the Oral Cancer Foundation lists, on their Web site, 40,000 diagnoses and 8,000 deaths. While higher than the death rate for the average cancer, deaths by oral cancer are almost always (87%) caused by people refusing to stop using chewing tobacco and/or alcohol.
It is estimated there will be 553,400 total cancer deaths in the United States in 2001. Malignant melanoma will account for 7,800 of these deaths, for an incidence of 1.5% of total deaths related to cancer.
In 2004 there were 553,888 cancer deaths in the US. There are 525,600 minutes in a year. That works out to (553,888/525,600 =) 1.054 cancer deaths per minute
Cancer is a very widespread disease and does take many lives. However, the population is not decreasing because of it. the population growth rate in total outweighs the deaths of cancer by far. there is currently no concern of cancer being a large contribution to population decrease
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