The United States Congress is the national federal legislative body of the United States of America. Congress is divided into two bodies: the House of Representatives and the Senate. The citizens of the United States elect the people that make up these bodies.
This year about 564,800 Americans are expected to die of cancer more than 1,500 people a day. Cancer is the second leading cause of death in the US, exceeded only by heart disease. One of every four deaths in the US is from cancer.
According to GLOBOCAN 2012, an estimated 14.1 million new cancer cases and 8.2 million. cancer-related deaths occurred in 2012, compared with 12.7 million and 7.6 million, respectively, in 2008. Prevalence estimates for 2012 show that there were 32.6 million people (over the age of. 15 years) alive who had had a cancer diagnosed in the previous five years. The most commonly diagnosed cancers worldwide were those of the lung (1.8 million, 13.0% of.