Survival

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Survival

• 62 survival for all cancers combined
• Considerations living 5 years post-diagnosis
• Disease-free
• In remission
• Under treatment with evidence of cancer

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Costs

• 2002 171.6 billion
• 60.9 billion (35) direct medical
• 15.5 billion (9) indirect morbidity
• 95.2 billion (56) indirect mortality
• Lack of health care for many patients

American Cancer Society
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California

• Most new cancer cases 125,000
• Most cancer-related deaths 52,200

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Types of Cancer

• 11 different types of cancer 80 of all cancers
  in the U.S.

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Most Frequent Types of Cancers

• Skin 600,000
• Lung
• Colon/rectum
• Breast
• Prostate

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Change in cancer frequencies

• Increase in lung cancer
• Decrease in stomach, uterine cervix cancers

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Cancer Death Rates, for Men, US, 1930-1999
Rate Per 100,000
Lung
Prostate
Stomach
Colon and rectum
Pancreas
Leukemia
Liver
Age-adjusted to the 2000 US standard
population. Source US Mortality Public Use Data
Tapes 1960-1999, US Mortality Volumes 1930-1959,
National Center for Health
Statistics, Centers for Disease Control and
Prevention, 2002.
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Cancer Death Rates, for Women, US, 1930-1999
Rate Per 100,000
Lung
Uterus
Breast
Colon and rectum
Stomach
Ovary
Pancreas
Age-adjusted to the 2000 US standard
population. Source US Mortality Public Use Data
Tapes 1960-1999, US Mortality Volumes 1930-1959,
National Center for Health
Statistics, Centers for Disease Control and
Prevention, 2002.
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2003 Estimated US Cancer Deaths
Men285,900
Women270,600
25 Lung bronchus 15 Breast 11 Colon
rectum 6 Pancreas 5 Ovary 4 Non-Hodgkin
lymphoma 4 Leukemia 3 Uterine
corpus 2 Brain/ONS 2 Multiple
myeloma 23 All other sites
Lung bronchus 31 Prostate 10 Colon
rectum 10 Pancreas 5 Non-Hodgkin 4lymphoma Le
ukemia 4 Esophagus 4 Liver/intrahepatic 3bile
duct Urinary bladder 3 Kidney 3 All other
sites 22
ONSOther nervous system. Excludes basal and
squamous cell skin cancers and in situ carcinomas
except urinary bladder. Source American Cancer
Society, 2003.
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Why we dont have a cancer cure?

• Cancer is self
• Drugs are against rapidly dividing cells
• Need to find unique properties of cancerous cells