Ten Cancers Will Account For Over 70 Percent Of New US Cases This Year.

reports in its “The New Anatomy of Cancer” issue that the practice of categorizing cancer by its point of origin within an organ or system “drew from decades of steady discoveries made by researchers staring at stained slides under a microscope.” Even as doctors move away from this taxonomy to the “precision of genetic research, the knowledge gained by staring at cells continues to be crucial to treatment.” According to estimates from the American Cancer Society, just ten cancers will account for 70 percent of new US cancer cases. In order of most frequent occurrence, the cancers are breast, lung, prostate, colorectum, lymphatic system, bladder, skin (melanoma), thyroid, kidney, and blood (leukemia). The deadliest cancers, ranked by 5-year survival rate, in ascending order are pancreatic, lung, liver, esophageal, stomach, and brain. The most-survivable cancers, ranked by 5-year survival rate, in descending order are prostate, thyroid, testicular, melanoma, breast, and Hodgkin lymphoma. http://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2016/05/11/magazine/cancer-origin.html?_r=0