Thursday, November 20, 2008

Statistics

I'm still waiting to speak to a cancer expert, but I was looking up cancer statistic and what I discovered was very shocking. In a poll in 2002, it was estimated that about 555,500 Americans will die from cancer each year, corresponding to 1,500 deaths per day. Something that was very upsetting was that at least 1,400 of these people were children ages 0-14. If you check out this website there is a very interesting country mortality rate comparison. 

http://rex.nci.nih.gov/NCl_Pub_interface/raterisk/rates39.html

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