cancer statistics

Hard to believe the statistics in this country and how we had a "war" on cancer how many years ago - the 70s - and we were going to cure cancer. While treatments have clearly gotten better and survival rates, we so need more research funding and action by our do-nothing congress. So for the statistics, ovarian cancer is the 8th on the list for cancer in women but 5th for mortality. Probably because it is usually diagnosed in stage 3 or 4. More than 12 million people have cancer in this country or have survived it. More than 1,600,000 are diagnosed with cancer each year and more than 500,000 die each year from cancer. In contrast, only 1.2 million people in US have AIDS or are HIV positive, and only 9500 people died from HIV last year.