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The American Cancer Society (ACS) released the 2005 edition of its annual publication, Cancer Facts & Figures, which provides a concise summary of the greatest in number frequently used cancer statistics, estimates of of recent origin cancer diagnoses and deaths for the instant year, and national and state data onward incidence, mortality, survival, and cancer risk factors. The report is available forward the American Cancer Society Web site at http://www.cancer.org.

This year's edition also features a special section onward cancers caused by infectious disease. The report estimates that in 2005 17 percent of strange cancer diagnoses worldwide will be attributable to infection. These figures include 5 million diagnoses (26 percent of novel cases) in developing countries and 360000 diagnoses (73 percent of fresh cases) in developed countries.

Other statistics include:

* In 2005 an estimated 1372910 fresh cancer diagnoses and approximately 570280 cancer deaths (1500 for day) are expected in the United States, where cancer causes single out of every four deaths.

* Lung cancer remains the number single in kind cause of cancer death in the United States, with an estimated 171900 recent diagnoses and 163,510 deaths calculate uponed in 2005; incidence and death rates from lung cancer continue to decrease in men and decreased for the first time in women from 1998 to 2001

* The five-year survival rate for all cancers is now 64 percent up from 50 percent in the 1970s

* The death rate from cancer among black men is about 14 times higher than that of white men For black women the death rate is 12 times higher than that of white women

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