Cancer did not cause deaths.
Cancer . Early detection through screening is useful for cervical and colorectal cancer . It caused about 8.8 million deaths ( 15.7 % ) of human deaths . Colorectal cancer . Five year survival rates in the United States are around 65 % . Skin cancer . Melanoma has one of the higher survival rates among cancers , with over 86 % of people in the UK and more than 90 % in the United States surviving more than 5 years . Globally in 2012 melanoma occurred in 232,000 people , and resulted in 55,000 deaths .