Here’s what you should know.
1. Cancer related deaths peaked in 1991 and have decreased every year since.
2. Otis Brawley, MD, chief medical officer of the American Cancer Society, approximated that 2.1 million people survived the disease during that time span.
3. Researchers estimate physicians will diagnose 1,688,780 new cases of cancer in 2017, and 600,920 people will die from cancer in 2017.
4. Women are most likely to die from lung, bronchus, breast and colorectal cancer. Men are most likely to die from lung, bronchus, colorectum and prostate cancer.
Those cancers account for 46 percent of all cancer related deaths.
5. Deaths from liver cancer increased 3 percent in women and 4 percent in men, year-over-year.
6. Dr. Brawley said research into cancer prevention must increase.
He said, “So much of our focus has been on screening for it and treating cancer, we’ve not done that as well as we should have, but we certainly have not done the aspect of prevention as well as we should have. I really wish that we could have a greater emphasis on coaching people on diet and exercise and a greater emphasis on coaching people regarding not smoking or, if they are smoking, how to stop smoking.”
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