Cancer Count

Can anyone help me find out the current percentage of the U.S. population that has cancer?

I couldn’t find the answer. Would be much appreciated to anyone that can.

Can anyone help me find out the current percentage of the U.S. population that has cancer?

I couldn’t find the answer. Would be much appreciated to anyone that can.

11 thoughts on “Cancer Count”

  1. http://www.cancer.org

    According to the American Cancer Society, men have a 1 in 2 chance of developing cancer somewhere during their life. Women have a 1 in 3 chance.

    Ouch

    However, there’s a 66% chance you’ll survive it. So there’s a silver lining somewhere.

    I couldn’t find the a percentage for all the households, just new case numbers by year. 1.3 million new cases are expected.

    And we spent $80 million in Iraq…

    My $.02 Weed

      1. My bad

        Thanks for the fix, helps to make my point more.

        Nice to have cheap oil to drive us to the Chemo center.

        My $.02 Weed

        1. Yeah, I’m digging that cheap oil.

          Yeah, I’m digging that cheap oil. $3/gallon for gas? EEE.

          I suggest we all assume the long-term price of the war is $80 Zillion…

    1. Excellent site

      Kevin, excellent site!

      Unless I’m reading the info wrong, 1.37 million new cases of cancer are expected in the U.S. during 2005. That’s new cases.

        1. Oops!

          Sorry Weed, I flew through the comments without reading carefully, eager to bop over to the link.

          You’d think that with those kinds of new cases each year that, at one moment in time, 3% of the U.S. population will be cancer patients?

          1. Hmmm.

            I wonder what the cases are by geography. My personal opinion is that living in the Northeast increases the chances due to the lovely amounts of smog and pollution we have here. Every so often I’m tempted to pick up and move to Montana, where (susposedly) the air is clear and the water pure.

            I don’t know how many people here I know who developed allergies in their early 20s. Is it definitely because of being in the NE? I dunno, but why take the chance?

            Just think. Every man in the US has a 50/50 chance of getting cancer.

            AIGHHHH!! Weed

            My $.02 Weed

  3. 1,200 A Day

    I just heard the Deputy Director for the National Cancer Society state in an interview that 1,200 people die each day from smoking-related cancer.

    1,200. Each day. That’s 438,000 a year.

  4. Why you Need this info

    I don’t know why you need this info. More than a billion people in the world are affected with cancer and around 5% of this will be in US

    RoHS Screening

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