Cancer Prevalence and Survival
This is the most prevalent cancer among women in 2025, with over 3.5 million survivors.
What is Breast Cancer?
What surgery removes the prostate gland?
What is a Prostatectomy?
Along with advances in treatment, this "early detection" method is credited for the major increase in survival rates.
What is a Mammogram?
Children with cancer are usually treated by this type of cancer doctor.
The American Cancer Society has developed guidelines for survivors of cancer on healthy behaviors related to ____ and ____.
What are Diet and Physical Activity?
This is the most prevalent cancer among men in 2025, with over 4.3 million survivors.
What is Prostate Cancer?
This simple blood test is commonly used to screen for prostate cancer.
What is a PSA test?
The most common treatment for women diagnosed with stage I or II breast cancer.
What is Breast-Conserving surgery?
Survivors of this type of cancer make up about one third of all cancer survivors under age 20.
What is Leukemia?
This specific cancer population is seeing a unique trend where incidence is decreasing in seniors but rising quickly in adults younger than 65.
What is Colorectal Cancer?
This cancer has one of the highest 5-year survival rates (around 94%) due to early detection.
What is Melanoma?
Long-term androgen-deprivation therapy increases the risk of this bone-thinning condition.
What is Osteoporosis?
While 83% of White women remain fully adherent to endocrine therapy two years post-diagnosis, this specific demographic has a lower adherence rate of 75%.
Who are Black Women?
This mental health condition affects about 12.5% of adult long-term survivors of childhood cancer.
What is Post-Traumatic Stress Disorder (PTSD)?
This is the most common treatment for stage I colon cancer.
What is a Colectomy?
The state with the highest cancer survivors, with nearly 2 million residents living with a history of the disease
What is California?
Less than this percentage of prostate cancer survivors are younger than age 50.
What is 1%?
As of January 1, 2025, this is the estimated number of women in the United States living with a previous diagnosis of invasive breast cancer.
What is 4 million?
This cancer has a survival rate greater than 99% in adolescents.
What is Thyroid Cancer?
The median age at diagnosis of testicular cancer.
What is 33 years?
This is the estimated number of people living with a history of cancer in the U.S. as of January 1, 2025.
What is 19 million?
What is the median age of patients diagnosed with prostate cancer in the United States?
What is 67?
This "cornerstone" treatment is used by about 81% of women with hormone receptor-positive tumors to help prevent the cancer from returning.
What is Endocrine Therapy?
About this percentage of childhood cancer survivors experience a major cardiovascular event by age 50.
What is 18%?
This act of 1935 created a system of employmentâbased health insurance coverage that has interacted with longstanding differences in employment opportunities, contributing to racial variation in health insurance coverage.
What is the Social Security Act of 1935?