Cancer Facts

Cancer’s Impact on Society

The following facts and statistics show that cancer has a profound, escalating impact on society:

·        About 1.5 million new cases of cancer are expected to be diagnosed in the United States this year. This translates into approximately 4,000 new cancer cases per day.

·        Everyone is at risk of developing cancer. On the average, one in two males and one in three females will develop cancer over his or her lifetimes.

·        About 600,000 Americans will die from cancer this year. This death rate encompasses more than 1,600 people per day.

·        Deaths from cancer are on the rise, and cancer has surpassed heart disease as the nation’s number one killer. In the United States, one of every four deaths results from cancer.

·        Annual cancer deaths among Americans exceed all U.S. combat deaths in all wars of the twentieth century. In short, we have, and have had for years, an epidemic of cancer in our society.

·        Cancer is the leading cause of death by disease for U.S. children under the age of 15. Approximately 9,000 children will be diagnosed with cancer and 2,000 children will die from cancer this year

·        Carcinomas are the most common form of all cancers. Lung and Bronchus Cancers, both carcinomas, have had the highest death rates of all cancers in the U.S. over the past 70 years.

·        Each year, more than 6 million people in the world die of cancer. This number is expected to double by the year 2020.

·        Conventional cancer therapies utilizing crude and primitive treatments of surgery, radiation and chemotherapy are generally dangerous, toxic and largely ineffective, but are highly profitable to medical practitioners.

·        The annual cost of cancer continues to rise each year. Currently, the overall cost of cancer in the U.S. is estimated at $160 billion, including $58 billion in direct medical costs, $85 billion in mortality costs and $17 billion in lost productivity due to illness.

·        A number of innovative cancer therapies have been proposed and hold promise as new methods of treating cancer. These new methods are non-toxic, natural and often inexpensive, but lack funding from Federal Governmental Agencies.

(Sources: The National Coalition for Cancer Research and The American Cancer Society, 2003.)

Cancer Treatments: Today and Tomorrow

Today

·        Cancer is currently treated by surgery, radiation, chemotherapy, hormones and immunotherapy.

·        Most forms of cancer treatment are generally dangerous, toxic and largely ineffective for the cancer victims.

·        Most forms of cancer treatment are highly profitable for medical practitioners.

·        Most current cancer research builds upon previous research findings in the above treatment areas.

Tomorrow

·        A number of innovative cancer therapies that are non-toxic, natural and often inexpensive have been proposed and hold promise as new methods of treating cancer.

·        These innovative therapies lack funding from Federal Governmental Agencies.

·        With funding from CCCF, research for these new therapies can go further toward preventing and treating cancer.