Medicare determines the expected staffing time per resident per day depending on level of care the residents of Grimes Center require. It is important to compare the reported time to expected time for a single facility instead of comparing the amount of time per resident of two facilities. Learn why.
5. Prostate cancer: 144,926 lives. This cancer is the second-leading cause of cancer deaths in men, after lung and bronchial cancer, according to the NCI. Prostate cancer usually starts to grow slowly in the prostate gland, which produces the seminal fluid to transport sperm.
Lung cancer is the one type of cancer that kills the most people throughout the world. Tobacco is the culprit in this statistic. The details for how many people die from cancer based on their country is not surprising. Two million in China are killed each year by cancer. Part of this is attributed to the increased urbanization and the adoption of Western diets. In the United Kingdom about 230,000 people die of cancer every year.