• 1,444,920 Americans were diagnosed in 2007.
  
  
• 559,650 died of cancer in 2007.
  
  
• $206.3 billion spent on healthcare costs for cancer in 2006.
  
  
• 47 million Americans lack health insurance.

A bar chart shows continuing growth in the estimated number of new U.S. cancer cases, highlighting the figures of 1,228,600 in 1998, 1,284,900 in 2002, and 1,444,920 in 2007.

The full listing of the numbers of new cases in the chart:
1998: 1,228,600
1999: 1,221,800
2000: 1,220,100
2001: 1,268,000
2002: 1,284,900
2003: 1,334,100
2004: 1,368,030
2005: 1,372,910
2006: 1,399,790
2007: 1,444,920

Slide displays an overlay graph, with the cancer death rate per 100,000 displayed as a line, over the number of cancer deaths displayed as bars. The chart covers the period from 1990 to 2005. The death rate per 100,000 shows a peak in 1991 of 215, declining steadily to 184 in 2005. The number of deaths climbed from 505 thousand in 1990 to a peak of 557 thousand in 2003, declined slightly in 2003 and 2004, and climbed to a new peak of 559,000 in 2005.

Numbers of cancer deaths figures are from the American Cancer Society (ACS). The numbers of
Deaths figures in the graph are:
1990: 505,366
1991: 514,705
1992: 520,616
1993: 529,951
1994: 534,353
1995: 538,505
1996: 539,593
1997: 539,615
1998: 541,582
1999: 549,838
2000: 553,091
2001: 553,768
2002: 557,271
2003: 556,902
2004: 553,888
2005: 559,312

Death rate per 100,000 figures are from the NCI. The death rate figures in the graph are:
1990: 214.9
1991: 215.1
1992: 213.5
1993: 213.4
1994: 211.7
1995: 209.9
1996: 207.0
1997: 203.6
1998: 200.8
1999: 200.7
2000: 198.7
2001: 195.9
2002: 193.7
2003: 190.0
2004: 185.8
2005: 184.0

There are an estimated 11,941,043 cancer survivors in the United States as of 2007.

A bar chart shows an increasingly rapid growth in this population, from a figure of about 3 million in 1971.

The data displayed in the bar chart:
1971: 2,995,741
1972: 3,134,865
1973: 3,299,981
1974: 3,447,010
1975: 3,630,812
1976: 3,805,837
1977: 3,993,109
1978: 4,192,377
1979: 4,391,529
1980: 4,576,763
1981: 4,745,108
1982: 4,943,233
1983: 5,127,487
1984: 5,320,663
1985: 5,536,992
1986: 5,731,770
1987: 5,944,365
1988: 6,168,724
1989: 6,386,491
1990: 6,598,821
1991: 6,873,628
1992: 7,193,377
1993: 7,527,947
1994: 7,849,228
1995: 8,182,427
1996: 8,412,650
1997: 8,659,323
1998: 8,946,912
1999: 9,235,540
2000: 9,555,312
2001: 9,809,040
2002: 10,146,324
2003: 10,495,985
2004: 10,762,214
2005: 11,183,404
2006: 11,560,322
2007: 11,941,043