WHAT IS CANCER?
Cancer is uncontrolled cell division caused by mutations. Mutations occur spontaneously during DNA replication. They can also be caused by environmental triggers such as tobacco or UV radiation.
COMMON CANCER TYPES
The breast cancer is the most common type of cancer, that are 249000 cases in the united states in this year. Also lung cancer and prostate cancer are common types of cancer.
The most common types of cancer are:
Bladder Cancer Breast Cancer Colon and Rectal Cancer Endometrial Cancer Kidney Cancer Leukemia
Lung Cancer Melanoma Non-Hodgkin Lymphoma Pancreatic Cancer Prostate Cancer Thyroid Cancer
The most common types of cancer in males
In the UK the most common cancer in males are prostate cancer, in 2013 around of 26% of males had prostate cancer. Lung cancer and bowel cancer are the next common cancer, with prostate cancer together they constitute 53% of all new cases in males in the UK.
The types of cancers that are common in males but not in females are leukaemia, bladder and oesophageal.
The most common types of cancer in females
The breast cancer in the UK is the most common type of cancer in females, constituting 31% of all the cases registered in 2013. The percent for lung cancer is 12%, for bowel cancer is 11% and together breast, lung and bowel constitute 54% of all new cases in the UK.
Two of the ten most common cancers in females are sex-specific (uterus and ovary), compared with just one of the ten most common in males. Pancreatic cancer is among the ten most common cancers in females, but not in males.
What is the average age in a woman to get breast cancer?
According to studies in the UK 46% of the women who have cancer have 65 years and older, the studies says that in the 50s the average age was 30-34 years and now with all the technology that we have the average age is 70-74 years. But after that the risk drops down again.
What is the average age in a man for prostate cancer ?...