Statistics lessons

In considering ovarian cancer, I keep trying to understand the numbers. I try to understand the cancer numbers overall too. For example in 2013, the projections are for 1,660,290 new cases of cancer, that's 1600 per day!! Ovarian cancer is about 22,000 per year, or about 60 per day, with more than 14,000 dying each year or about 39 per day. Ovarian cancer is only 3% of all cancers but 5% of all cancer deaths. Yet, no one discusses it, a truly silent killer.

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.