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Originally Posted by Cody Carey
If you compair that to the current population of the united states, some 301,139,947... it turns out to be a very small percentage indeed... somewhere around 0.46 percent per year. If you take a look at the average American life expectancy, (74 years) ... and ... wait. I am not going to get THAT in-depth =P.
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Maybe you should have. From the same website, it indicates that the current death rate from cancer in the US is 1 in 4 or 25% of the current population will die eventually of cancer. Taking your population figure, that's over 75 million people in the US alone who will contract and die of cancer in the current population.