The odds are that you personally know someone that has died of cancer...
There are 1.4 million new cancer cases each year
570,000 people die from cancer each year - or 1,500 people per day
The National Institutes of Health estimate overall costs for cancer in the year 2002 at $171.6 billion; $60.9 billion for all health expenditures, $15.5 billion for cost of lost productivity due to illness, $95.2.7 billion for cost of lost productivity due to premature death.
In 2003, an estimated 28,900 men are expected to die of prostate cancer and breast cancer will claim an estimated 39,800 women's lives in 2003.
Click here to check out more cancer facts from the American Cancer Society.