America's cancer crisis in numbers: the type most likely to get you depending on age, ethnicity and gender
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America's cancer crisis in numbers: the type most likely to get you depending on age, ethnicity and gender

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These are breast cancer, prostate cancer, lung and bronchus and colorectal It seems not a day goes by when we don't hear of an American struck down before their time with colon cancer. USAFacts used the latest official data to reveal that four types of cancer represented half of the 1.96 million new cancer cases in 2023: breast cancer, prostate cancer, lung and bronchus cancer, colorectal cancers. Four types of cancer represented half of the 1.96 million new cancer cases in 2023: breast cancer, prostate cancer, lung and bronchus cancer, colorectal cancers As of 2019, men were roughly 15 percent more likely to be diagnosed with cancer and 38 percent more likely to die from the disease than women. Prostate, lung, and colorectal cancers are the most types of cancer common for men, which were responsible for over half of new cancer cases and 46 percent of cancer deaths in 2023 among men. For women, the most common cancers are estimated to be breast, lung, and colorectal cancers, which accounted for 55 percent of their new cancer cases and half of cancer deaths in 2023.

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