Cancer In American
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In modern society cancer is the disease most feared by the majority of
people throughout the world, supplanting the "white death," or tuberculosis,
of the last century; the "black death," or bubonic plague, of the Middle
Ages; and the leprosy of biblical times. Cancer has been known and
describe ....
Middle of paper
.... China and Japan. The
fourth on the list is colon or rectum cancer, a disease that mainly strikes
the elderly. In the United States in the mid-1980s, more than one-fifth of
all deaths were caused by cancer; only the cardiovascular diseases
accounted for a higher percentage. In 1990 the American Cancer Society
predicted that about 30 percent of Americans will eventually develop some
form of the disease. In the United States skin cancer is the most
prevalent cancer in both men and women. Lung ....
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