The American Cancer Society (ACS) h...

The American Cancer Society (ACS) has issued the 2005 edition of their annual publication, "Cancer Facts & Figures." Each year, this report features a concise summary of the in the greatest degree frequently used cancer statistics, estimates of recently made known cancer cases and deaths for the common year, and national and state data. In this edition, a special section in succession cancers caused by infectious disease is included. Among other statistics, the report reveals there were an estimated 1372910 recently made known cases of cancer in 2005; lung cancer remains the number undivided cause of death in the United States; the five-year survival rate for all cancers is 64 percent up from 50 percent in the 1970 The publication is available onward the ACS Web site at http://www.cancer.org.

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