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types of cancer  

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  • Based on 2005 estimates from the Surveillance, Epidemiology, and End Results (SEER) registry of the National Cancer Institute and American Cancer Society, the most frequent types of cancer in men are (in descending order) prostate, lung, colorectal, bladder, melanoma, lymphoma, kidney, leukemia, mouth and pharynx, and pancreas. In woman, they are breast, lung, colorectal, uterine corpus, lymphoma, melanoma, ovary, thyroid, bladder, and pancreas. [Source: Encyclopedia of Health & Aging; Cancer, Common Types of]

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