Cancer Types

What is cancer?

The rapid division of the body cells without control which further leads to tumor or spreads through the body via blood destroying the healthy cells is known as tumor. Cancer can affect any part of the body. There are different types of cancer though some of them are the most commonly heard off.

Mentioned below are some of the most commonly diagnosed cancers:

1. Breast cancer 
2. Lung and Bronchus cancer
3. Prostate gland cancer
4. Rectum and Colon cancer
5. Cancer of the Urinary tract and bladder
6. Skin cancer
7. Non-Hodgkin Lymphoma
8. Cancer of the Pancreas
9. Cancer of the ovaries
10. Neck, Oral and Head

Non-melanoma skin cancer is one of the most commonly found cancers in United States and thyroid cancer is not so common. The rates of diagnosis as well as the death of each of these above mentioned cancer varies. The percentile ration does not mention the age, the mode of treatment as well as the gender. The mode of the treatment varies from patient to patient so does the age factor but the most important aspect when it comes to the mode of treatment is the stage of cancer or rather the spread of cancer.

In certain cases the death rate is higher due to its poor diagnosis as some of these cancers are not easily detected and by the time they are detected the cancer has spread throughout the body thus the treatment is not effective as compared to other types of cancer.

Listed below are some of the facts and figures in the percentile ration of the above mentioned cancers. Starting from the least to the highest percent of death due to cancer of the different types of cancer these are all statistical figures:

1. Death due to cancer of the testis (testicular) 5%
2. Death due to cancer of the prostate glands 13%
3. Death due to Melanoma (Skin) cancer 13%
4. Death due to Anal Cancer 16%
5. Death due to Uterine cancer 18%
6. Death due to breast cancer 19%
7. Death due to gall bladder 21%
8. Death due to lymphoma 32%
9. Death due to cancer of the kidneys 35%
10. Death due to cervical cancer 36%
11. Death due to various cancers 42%
12. Death due to cancer of the stomach 53%
13. Death due to colon cancer 54%
14. Death due to all kinds of leukemia 65%
15. Death due to multiple myeloma 71%
16. Death due to ovarian cancer or cancer of the ovaries 73%
17. Death due to the cancer of the esophagus 94%
18. Death due to lung cancer 95%
19. Death due to cancer of the pancreas 99%

Looking at the statistical figures of these you can clearly understand why some of them are fatal and even the most advanced mode of treatment cannot help people suffering from these cancers as they are diagnosed at a stage where no medicines can help. The only way to help yourself from being diagnosed from any of the above mentioned cancers is that you follow a healthy nutritious diet and try to avoid those things that are known as risk factors that can lead to cancer.