Thyroid cancer starts in the thyroid gland, located in the front part of the neck. According to the American Cancer Society’s estimated 2017 statistics, nearly 57,000 people will be diagnosed with thyroid cancer and nearly 75% of them will be…
With less than 1 man in 100,000 being diagnosed, penile cancer is rare in North American and Europe, accounting for less than 1% of cancer deaths. According to the American Cancer Society’s 2017 estimated statistics, in the United States, 2,120…
According to the American Cancer Society’s estimated 2017 statistics, over 53,000 people will be diagnosed with pancreatic cancer (3% of all cancer diagnoses) and just over 43,000 of them will die from it (7% of all cancer deaths). An individual’s…
According to the American Cancer Society’s 2017 statistics, ovarian cancer is the fifth leading cause of cancer deaths in women, with about 14,000 deaths a year. Over half of the women diagnosed are over age 63. A woman’s risk of…
Liver cancer is the leading cause of cancer deaths worldwide (over 600,000), although it is much more common in Sub-Saharan Africa and Southeast Asia. It is also much more common in men than in women. According to the American Cancer…
Kidney cancer is one of the 10 most common forms of cancer. According to the American Cancer Society’s 2017 estimated statistics, almost 64,000 people were diagnosed with kidney cancer, and about 14,400 deaths resulted from it. The average age of diagnosis…
According to the American Cancer Society’s 2017 estimated statistics, about 3,130 people were diagnosed with eye cancer, and about 330 deaths resulted from it. Eye cancer is more often a secondary cancer (begins elsewhere in the body and spreads to…
One of the deadliest cancers for women, according to WHO, cervical cancer is responsible for over 270,000 deaths a year, with 85% of those deaths occurring in developing countries, where cervical cancer is the second most common cancer for women.…
Endometrium is the inner tissue lining of the uterus. Uterus is the pear shaped hollow organ located in the pelvis of female. It helps in conceiving child. The cancer associated with the inner lining of the uterus is known as…