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.
Pancreatic cancer is the fourth leading cause of cancer death for both men and women. 1  Pancreatic cancer is one of the most deadly of all types of cancer.  This year 44,000 Americans will be diagnosed with pancreatic cancer and about 38,000 will die from it.