Types of Cancer :: List of Common Cancer Types in the United States 2004/2005

List of Common Cancer Types in the United States 2004/2005

The list of common cancers includes cancers that are diagnosed with the greatest frequency in the United States. Cancer incidence statistics from the American Cancer Society and other resources were used to create the list. To qualify as a common cancer, the estimated annual incidence for 2005 had to be 25,000 cases or more.

The most common type of cancer on the list is non-melanoma skin cancer, with more than 1,000,000 new cases expected in the United States in 2005. Non-melanoma skin cancers represent about half of all cancers diagnosed in this country.

The cancers on the list with the lowest incidence are renal cell cancer of the kidney and thyroid cancer. The estimated number of new cases of kidney cancer (renal cell and renal pelvis) for 2005 is 36,160. Approximately 70% of all kidney cancers are renal cell cancers,2 suggesting that slightly more than 25,000 new cases of renal cell cancer will be diagnosed in 2005. The estimated number of new cases of thyroid cancer for 2005 is 25,690.

Because colon and rectal cancers are often referred to as "colorectal cancers," these two cancer types were combined for the list. For 2005, the estimated number of new cases of colon cancer is 104,950, and the estimated number of new cases of rectal cancer is 40,340. These numbers are slightly smaller than those estimated for 2004.

Leukemia as a cancer type includes acute lymphoblastic (or lymphoid) leukemia, chronic lymphocytic leukemia, acute myeloid leukemia, chronic myelogenous (or myeloid) leukemia, and other forms of leukemia. It is estimated that more than 34,000 new cases of leukemia will be diagnosed in the United States in 2005, with acute myeloid leukemia being the most common type (approximately 12,000 new cases). The total number of new leukemia cases estimated for 2005 is slightly larger than the number estimated for 2004.

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Types of Cancer :: Library :: Gallbladder Cancer

Library :: Gallbladder Cancer

You find the following posts on Types of Cancer Blog about Gallbladder Cancer:

Types of Cancer :: Gallbladder Cancer
Types of Cancer :: Gallbladder Cancer - Part II
Types of Cancer :: Gallbladder Cancer - Part III
Types of Cancer :: Gallbladder Cancer - Part IV
Types of Cancer :: Gallbladder Cancer - Part V
Types of Cancer :: Gallbladder Cancer - Part VI
Types of Cancer :: Gallbladder Cancer - Part VII

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Literature about Gallbladder Cancer:

Gale Encyclopedia of Cancer : Gallbladder cancer
Gallbladder Cancer: A Medical Dictionary, Bibliography, And Annotated Research Guide To Internet References
The Official Patient's Sourcebook on Gallbladder Cancer: A Revised and Updated Directory for the Internet Age
21st Century Complete Medical Guide to Cancer of the Small Intestine, Gallbladder, and Bile Duct - Authoritative Government Documents and Clinical References ... on Diagnosis and Treatment Options
Hepatic and Biliary Cancer (Science and Practice of Surgery Series, Vol 8)

Types of Cancer :: Gallbladder Cancer - Part VI

How is gallbladder cancer treated?

As with many tumor types, management is often a multidisciplinary approach involving a variety of treatments.

Total surgical removal of all known tumor is the only truly curative treatment. Unfortunately, only about 25% of patients with gallbladder cancer are able to undergo definitive surgery. Furthermore, such a procedure is typically quite extensive, and involves removal of the gallbladder, regional lymph nodes, and a portion of liver if there is concern of invasion. As you might expect, such a surgery carries a high risk of serious operative injury. Even when surgery is possible, the surgeon is usually unable to take very large resection margins around the tumor, meaning that cancer cells may exist at, or very close to, the tissue edges where the surgeon cut. In such cases, external beam radiation therapy can be used in hopes of eradicating any microscopic cancer remaining in the surgical area and surrounding at-risk regions. Median survival in patients with advanced but operable disease treated with surgery alone is cited as roughly 6-7 months. This can sometimes be improved to over 16 months with postoperative radiation therapy.

For patients who are unable to undergo surgery, either because the disease is too advanced or because of other serious medical conditions, HCPs can use radiation therapy with or without concurrent chemotherapy in order to improve symptoms, and in some cases maybe even increase survival.

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