Which of these cancers has the highest mortality rate in the US?

Pancreatic adenocarcinoma has the poorest prognosis of all types of human cancer. A higher proportion of patients (> 92%) die with this cancer than with any of the others listed when measured at 5 years after diagnosis. The survival rate is very poor despite treatment.

Fortunately pancreatic cancer is much less common than breast, lung, colon, and prostate cancer. Therefore although pancreatic cancer is almost always lethal, it is only the fourth leading cause of death due to cancer.

The major modifiable risk factors for pancreatic cancer are cigarette smoking, high body mass and lack of physical activity, chronic pancreatitis, and pancreatic cysts.

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MRogers

Sorry, missed back space. I didn’t read the question as which cancer kills the most which as noted is lung cancer, without going into the data it’s probably the most diagnosed cases. I read it as which are you least likely to survive on diagnosis. Isn’t it almost without exception fatal? While ultimately fatal, the other listed cancer are to one degree or another survivable. I’ve known two breast cancer survivors who enjoyed a couple of decades after diagnosis and treatment.

Armadillo

Richard G Schwartz, or ask someone in treatment.

Armadillo

Donna Means, not at all if you read the question correctly.

Nikodema

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Richard Rubright

This is a poorly worded question. Pancreatic cancer doesn't make the top four of deaths by population because there are fewer cases, of which a higher number are fatal.

Michael Doherty

This is a poorly worded question, this is a misleading question, the question should have been stated; waa waa babies. Read the question two or three times and then answer.

John W Shreve

I had a ruptured pancreas when I was seven and 60 years later had scar tissue removed which had grown since the injury.

mtstella

The question should read "What cancer has the lowest survival rate?" Then the correct answer is pancreatic cancer. Lung cancer is, in fact, the cancer with the highest mortality rate!

Donna Means

Poorly worded and misleading!

janellejaworski

Oh pancreatic cancer sorry my mistake.

Joanne Serin

jack patti go, I thought it was fine.

Satish Chandran

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fdeisner

After choosing lung cancer and getting it wrong I looked it up online. According to the CDC: Skin cancer is the most common form of cancer in the United States, followed by breast cancer (among women) and prostate cancer (among men). More people in the United States die from lung cancer than any other type of cancer. This is true for both men and women. U.S. Cancer Statistics Data Visualizations Tool