TAILIEUCHUNG - The Burden of Cancer in American Adults

Many women with ovarian cancer want to take an active part in making decisions about their medical care. It is natural to want to learn all you can about your disease and treatment choices. Knowing more about ovarian cancer helps many women cope. Shock and stress after the diagnosis can make it hard to think of everything you want to ask your doctor. It often helps to make a list of questions before an appointment. To help remember what your doctor says, you may take notes or ask whether you may use a tape recorder. You may also want to have a family member or friend with you when you. | IH The Burden of u Cancer in sB American Adults SIB Phzer Front cover photo credit of lung x-ray Swanson and Jett Lung Cancer. Atlas of Cancer Philadelphia Current Medicine 2003. The Burden of Cancer in American Adults Almost 11 million American adults aged 20 and older of the population have a history of cancer excluding basal and squamous cell skin cancers. This burden includes newly diagnosed cancers active cancers diagnosed more than one year ago cancers in remission and cancers that have been cured. The magnitude of this population is a function of incidence rates new cases diagnosed during the year as well as associated mortality rates. Each year of adults aged 20 and older approximately million people in 2005 are diagnosed with cancer including malignant melanoma but excluding other skin cancers. The most frequently diagnosed cancers are prostate cancer accounting for 31 of new cancers in men and breast cancer accounting for 32 of new cancers in women. Affecting both men and women lung and colorectal cancers are the third and fourth most commonly diagnosed cancers. Each year cancer takes the lives of 550 000 people of all ages a rate of 195 deaths per 100 000 population. Of the four most incident cancers lung cancer has the highest death rate 56 deaths per 100 000 population and lowest five-year relative survival rate 15 are alive at five years . Colorectal cancer has a death rate of 20 per 100 000 population and a five-year relative survival rate of 62 but survival ranges from 90 to 66 to 9 depending on whether diagnosis is made at the local regional or distant stage respectively. Clearly early diagnosis is essential for colorectal cancer as well as for most cancers. But too few adults are being screened. Although Medicare covers sigmoidoscopy or colonoscopy 44 of women and 40 of men aged 65 and older have never had either of these screening tests. Each year billion of direct medical services is consumed by community dwelling adults for .

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