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 cause of cancer deaths in both men and women, in the United States and worldwide, is lung cancer. It's estimated that in 2017 there will be about 155,870 deaths from lung cancer. This is greater than the number of deaths from breast cancer (41,070), prostate cancer (26,730), and colon and rectal cancers (50,260) combined.