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.
In women, the most common cause of cancer is breast cancer, and like men, the most common cause of cancer death is lung cancer. According to the American Cancer Society, in the United States, about 1,620 people were expected to die of cancer each day in 2015 â this equates to nearly 590,000 people.