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.
The most common type of cancer overall is skin cancer, responsible for more than a million cases of cancer in the United States yearly. That said, non-melanoma skin cancers - basal cell and squamous cell skin cancers - cause fewer than 1,000 deaths per year.