The Nation - News from March 14, 1988

Almost 1 million Americans will be diagnosed with cancer this year, and more than half of them will be dead within five years, an annual American Cancer Society report said. Lung cancer will remain the leading cancer killer in the country, with the combined total of colon and rectum cancers coming in second and breast cancer third, said the report, “Cancer Facts and Figures 1988.” According to the study, uterine cancer will be fourth, followed by ovarian, oral, prostate, bladder, skin and pancreatic cancers among the top 10. Leukemia was listed as the least frequent cancer killer.