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Cancer Incidence and Survival Statistics According to the American Cancer Society 45%
of men and 38% of women will get cancer (go
here). Overall about 41% of Americans will
get cancer and 21% die from it (go
here) and
2008 data
here. ACS Stats Page,
CancerNet
(NCI) Statistics, CDC Cancer
Statistics, CDC
Health Statistics,
NAACCR Stats,
NCDB
Benchmark Tables, NCDB
Survival Tables, SEER
and here
and here
(median
age here and
here,
survival,
life time risk,
life time
mortality) Survival data is
noted below but read and understand the disclaimer about medical statistics here, Survival for specific cancers are found in the
individual sections here, and
there are some very useful online
survival calculators.
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