Lung cancer is a swift killer. Of the 172,570 people who were diagnosed with lung cancer in the United States in 2005 only 15 percent will survive for five years.
Lung cancer is the third most common type of cancer in the United States (after prostate cancer and breast cancer). Yet due to its bleak outcome, it is the number-one killer among cancer patients. According to the American Lung Association, lung cancer caused an estimated 160,440 deaths in 2004, accounting for 28.5 percent of all cancer-related deaths. Continue Reading »
