Second Article Bullets

•  United States is responsible for about 560,000 deaths per year—23 percent of the overall total
• Skin cancer continues to be the most prevalent
• In men alone, prostate cancer is the most common
• In women, breast cancer is the most prevalent
• In both sexes, lung cancer accounts for the greatest number of cancer deaths each year
• The likelihood of developing cancer increases with age
• In the past, people generally did not live long enough to develop cancers
• The frequencies of age-specific cancers have not changed dramatically in years
• The incidence of lung cancer has been steadily declining among men, but it continues to increase among women
• five-year relative survival rate for all types of cancers diagnosed between 1995 and 2000 was 64 percent, compared with 50 percent between 1974 and 1976