Cancer: Halting the Burden 2009

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• Corporate Authors:
  National Center for Chronic Disease Prevention and Health Promotion (U.S.). Division of Cancer Prevention and Control.
• Description:
  Every year, cancer claims the lives of more than half a million Americans. Cancer is the second leading cause of death in the United States, exceeded only by heart disease. According to United States Cancer Statistics: 2005 Incidence and Mortality, which tracks cancer incidence for about 96% of the U.S. population and mortality for the entire country, more than 559,000 Americans died of cancer, and more than 1.34 million had a diagnosis of cancer in 2005. The financial costs of cancer are overwhelming. According to the National Institutes of Health, cancer cost the United States an estimated $228 billion in medical costs in 2008.
  
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• Subjects:
  Neoplasms/mortality Neoplasms/prevention & Control
• Series:
  CDC At A Glance
• Document Type:
  Text
• Genre:
  Pamphlet (or booklet)
• Pages in Document:
  4 numbered pages
• Collection(s):
  Stephen B. Thacker CDC Library
• Main Document Checksum:
  urn:sha-512:6d0802ca1dba48e7656d05c39b6b2924deec4f32f83cf1654c3cc70d2fdefcb6d49830344e1d88f3809f319871051da819c9224ec0d698450180af98a43000d6
• Download URL:
  https://stacks.cdc.gov/view/cdc/29343/cdc_29343_DS1.pdf
• File Type:
  [PDF - 3.27 MB ]