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 causes of cancer death worldwide have changed little over the last 40 years. Lung, liver, stomach and bowel cancers have been the four most common causes of cancer death since 1975.[ 1-7 ]. Caution should be taken when interpreting trends over time for cancers worldwide because changes probably also reflect changes in data recording.