Re: FW: Release of 1999-2006 United States Cancer Statistics: Incidence and Mortality Web-based Report

[Guest guest]

The statement

<snip> is now the number 2 cancer killer

in the US.

<snip>

Is technically correct but, I think,

misleading because it is really only true for men over the age of 80.

If you go to http://caonline.amcancersoc.org/cgi/content-nw/full/59/4/225/TBL10

you will see that quite clearly.

This page shows 15,120 deaths in men over

the age of 80 attributed to prostate cancer out of a total of 79,411 cancer

deaths for men of that age (about 19%)

11,967 deaths in men in the 60 -70 age

group were attributed to prostate cancer out of a total of 150,536 cancer

deaths for men of that age (about 8%) making it the number 3 cancer killer in

that age group, but still only one fifth of the deaths from lung cancer

Only 2% of the deaths were attributed to prostate

cancer of the total number of cancer deaths in men under the age of 60

I think this distinction may be important

to some of the younger men diagnosed these days.

All the best

Prostate men need enlightening, not

frightening

Terry

Herbert - diagnosed in 1996 and

still going strong

Read A Strange Place for unbiased information at http://www.yananow.net/StrangePlace/index.html

From: ProstateCancerSupport [mailto:ProstateCancerSupport ] On Behalf Of Kathy Meade

Sent: Monday, 22 March 2010 11:03

AM

To: Kathy Meade

Subject:

FW: Release of 1999-2006 United States Cancer Statistics: Incidence and

Mortality Web-based Report

Based on this year's report prostate cancer is

now the number 2 cancer

killer in the US.

For black men it is a close second after lung cancer. I

wish we could stop arguing about screening and focus how to change these

numbers. What are we going to do about this?

http://apps.nccd.cdc.gov/uscs/toptencancers.aspx

Kathy

________________________________________

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Control & Prevention

Sent: Wednesday, March 17, 2010 10:32 AM

To: sen, Carolyn

Subject: Release of 1999-2006 United States Cancer Statistics: Incidence and

Mortality Web-based Report

The 1999–2006 United States Cancer Statistics (USCS): Incidence and

Mortality Web-based Report marks the eighth time that the Centers for

Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) and the National Cancer Institute (NCI)

have jointly produced official federal cancer incidence statistics for each

state having high-quality cancer data. The report is produced in

collaboration with the North American Association of Central Cancer

Registries.

This year's report features information on more than one million invasive

cancer cases diagnosed during 2006 among residents of 48 states, 6

metropolitan areas, and the District

of Columbia—geographic areas in which

about 96% of the U.S.

population reside. Incidence data are from CDC's

National Program of Cancer Registries (NPCR) and NCI's Surveillance,

Epidemiology and End Results (SEER) Program. Data from population-based

central cancer registries in these states and metropolitan areas meet the

selected criteria for inclusion in this report.

The report also provides cancer mortality data collected and processed by

CDC's National Center for Health Statistics. Mortality

statistics, based on

records of deaths that occurred during 2006, are available for all 50 states

and the District of Columbia.

The 1999–2006 USCS: Incidence and Mortality Web-based Report, as well as

companion materials based on the report data, are available at

http://www.cdc.gov/uscs.

________________________________________

Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) · 1600 Clifton Rd · Atlanta

GA 30333 · 800-CDC-INFO ()

[Guest guest]

Terry I no longer have to say " in men " . Sad. Most of my friends who have

died from prostate cancer were under 80 and there are men on this list who

are under 50 and facing advancing disease. Most women who die from breast

cancer are older also but that doesn't mean that we don't see it as a major

problem and take steps to reduce the problem. I just spent time with a man

in his 40's who has failed chemo and is facing limited options. He is a

wonderful man it would be a great loss to lose him. If we make it seem that

this is an old man's disease we are doing a disservice to these younger men

their widows and children.

Kathy

Release of 1999-2006 United States Cancer Statistics: Incidence and

Mortality Web-based Report

The 1999–2006 United States Cancer Statistics (USCS): Incidence and

Mortality Web-based Report marks the eighth time that the Centers for

Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) and the National Cancer Institute (NCI)

have jointly produced official federal cancer incidence statistics for each

state having high-quality cancer data. The report is produced in

collaboration with the North American Association of Central Cancer

Registries.

This year's report features information on more than one million invasive

cancer cases diagnosed during 2006 among residents of 48 states, 6

metropolitan areas, and the District of Columbia—geographic areas in which

about 96% of the U.S. population reside. Incidence data are from CDC's

National Program of Cancer Registries (NPCR) and NCI's Surveillance,

Epidemiology and End Results (SEER) Program. Data from population-based

central cancer registries in these states and metropolitan areas meet the

selected criteria for inclusion in this report.

The report also provides cancer mortality data collected and processed by

CDC's National Center for Health Statistics. Mortality statistics, based on

records of deaths that occurred during 2006, are available for all 50 states

and the District of Columbia.

The 1999–2006 USCS: Incidence and Mortality Web-based Report, as well as

companion materials based on the report data, are available at

http://www.cdc.gov/uscs.

________________________________________

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GA 30333 · 800-CDC-INFO ()

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[Guest guest]

Thank you Terry;This study gives me a little more hope. I understand that a percent here or a percent there may not mean much to some folks, but to me it could mean life or death. As of yet, I am not diagnosed with PCa, but all the tell tales are there, at least according to my urologist. He was to do a biopsy last Friday, but I started to have an anxiety attack during the process, and my blood pressure went up to 170 over 90, so he stopped the procedure, and scheduled me to have it done under anesthesia on Mar 29. I am 59 years old, and am just now starting on this journey called prostate cancer. Hopefully we have caught it soon enough, if I have it, to get it taken care of before it takes care of me.Thanks for this group. It is sure a lot better than one I just unsubbed from that seemed to be all doom and gloom. I need

enlightening, not discouraging..Dan HarrimanTyler TexasIf at first you don't succeed, maybe you shouldn't try sky diving!Subject: RE: FW: Release of 1999-2006 United States Cancer Statistics: Incidence and Mortality Web-based ReportTo: ProstateCancerSupport Date: Sunday, March 21, 2010, 7:49 PM

The statement <snip> is now the number 2 cancer killer

in the US .

<snip> Is technically correct but, I think,

misleading because it is really only true for men over the age of 80. If you go to http://caonline.amcancersoc.org/cgi/content-nw/full/59/4/225/TBL10

you will see that quite clearly. This page shows 15,120 deaths in men over

the age of 80 attributed to prostate cancer out of a total of 79,411 cancer

deaths for men of that age (about 19%) 11,967 deaths in men in the 60 -70 age

group were attributed to prostate cancer out of a total of 150,536 cancer

deaths for men of that age (about 8%) making it the number 3 cancer killer in

that age group, but still only one fifth of the deaths from lung cancer Only 2% of the deaths were attributed to prostate

cancer of the total number of cancer deaths in men under the age of 60 I think this distinction may be important

to some of the younger men diagnosed these days.

All the best Prostate men need enlightening, not

frightening Terry

Herbert - diagnosed in 1996 and

still going strong Read

A Strange Place for unbiased information at http://www.yananow.net/StrangePlace/index.html

From:

ProstateCancerSupport [mailto:

ProstateCancerSupport ] On Behalf Of Kathy Meade

Sent: Monday, 22 March 2010 11:03

AM

To: Kathy Meade

Subject:

FW: Release of 1999-2006 United States Cancer Statistics: Incidence and

Mortality Web-based Report

Based on this year's report prostate cancer is

now the number 2 cancer

killer in the US .

For black men it is a close second after lung cancer. I

wish we could stop arguing about screening and focus how to change these

numbers. What are we going to do about this?

http://apps. nccd.cdc. gov/uscs/ toptencancers. aspx

Kathy

[Guest guest]

Dan I don’t know if you have

downloaded (or would like a hard copy) of my booklet A Strange Place. In that I have tried to

present as much information as I have learned over the years in as unbiased way

as I can. Many men have told me that they have found it helpful.

All the best

Prostate men need enlightening, not

frightening

Terry

Herbert - diagnosed in 1996 and

still going strong

Read A Strange Place for unbiased information at http://www.yananow.net/StrangePlace/index.html

From: ProstateCancerSupport [mailto:ProstateCancerSupport ] On Behalf Of Dan

Sent: Monday, 22 March 2010 12:29

PM

To: ProstateCancerSupport

Subject: RE:

FW: Release of 1999-2006 United States Cancer

Statistics: Incidence and Mortality Web-based Report

Thank you Terry;

This study gives me a little more hope. I understand that a percent here or a

percent there may not mean much to some folks, but to me it could mean life

or death.

As of yet, I am not diagnosed with PCa, but all the tell tales are there, at

least according to my urologist. He was to do a biopsy last Friday, but I

started to have an anxiety attack during the process, and my blood pressure

went up to 170 over 90, so he stopped the procedure, and scheduled me to have

it done under anesthesia on Mar 29.

I am 59 years old, and am just now starting on this journey called prostate

cancer. Hopefully we have caught it soon enough, if I have it, to get it

taken care of before it takes care of me.

Thanks for this group. It is sure a lot better than one I just unsubbed from

that seemed to be all doom and gloom. I need enlightening, not discouraging..

Dan Harriman

Tyler Texas

If at first you don't succeed, maybe you shouldn't try sky diving!

From: Terry Herbert

<ghenesh_49optusnet.au>

Subject: RE: FW: Release of 1999-2006 United

States Cancer Statistics: Incidence and Mortality Web-based Report

To: ProstateCancerSupport

Date: Sunday, March 21, 2010, 7:49 PM

The statement

<snip> is now the number 2 cancer killer in the US .

<snip>

Is technically correct but, I think, misleading because it is

really only true for men over the age of 80.

If you go to http://caonline.amcancersoc.org/cgi/content-nw/full/59/4/225/TBL10

you will see that quite clearly.

This page shows 15,120 deaths in men over the age of 80

attributed to prostate cancer out of a total of 79,411 cancer deaths for men

of that age (about 19%)

11,967 deaths in men in the 60 -70 age group were attributed to

prostate cancer out of a total of 150,536 cancer deaths for men of that age

(about 8%) making it the number 3 cancer killer in that age group, but still

only one fifth of the deaths from lung cancer

Only 2% of the deaths were attributed to prostate cancer of the

total number of cancer deaths in men under the age of 60

I think this distinction may be important to some of the younger

men diagnosed these days.

All the best

Prostate men need enlightening, not frightening

Terry Herbert - diagnosed in 1996 and still going strong

Read A Strange Place for unbiased information at http://www.yananow.net/StrangePlace/index.html

From: ProstateCancerSupport

[mailto: ProstateCancerSupport

] On Behalf Of Kathy Meade

Sent: Monday, 22 March 2010

11:03 AM

To: Kathy Meade

Subject:

FW: Release of 1999-2006 United States Cancer Statistics: Incidence and

Mortality Web-based Report

Based on this year's report prostate cancer is

now the number 2 cancer

killer in the US

.. For black men it is a close second after lung cancer. I

wish we could stop arguing about screening and focus how to change these

numbers. What are we going to do about this?

http://apps.

nccd.cdc. gov/uscs/ toptencancers. aspx

Kathy

[Guest guest]

Kathy,

I have followed this board for several years. I am a survivor of Pca

with no symptoms or after effects. Protons of course. Started with a

Psa of 20. That was 2yr ago. Psa is now .1.

No matter the treatment chosen, this matter of the word not getting out

is a universal problem.

Problems have solutions.

A solution comes to mind.

Every day I get 25 to 50 of those "funny emails". Mostly from friends

and relatives. And there are those that give advise, usually medical

advice. You know the ones like what to do if you are having a heart

attack. Most are verified by Snoops, or discredited.

The good advice on this board as well as the other moderated boards is

that we are preaching to the choir.

Perhaps this board and its members could design an effective email that

everyone would like to forward to their "non Pca friends" As the

saying goes "pass this on"

Whaddaya think?

d.

Based on this year's report prostate cancer is now the number 2

cancer

killer in the US. For black men it is a close second after lung cancer.

I

wish we could stop arguing about screening and focus how to change these

numbers. What are we going to do about this?

http://apps.nccd.cdc.gov/uscs/toptencancers.aspx

Kathy

________________________________________

From: info114service (DOT) govdelivery.com

[mailto:info114service (DOT) govdelivery.com]

On Behalf Of Centers for Disease

Control & Prevention

Sent: Wednesday, March 17, 2010 10:32 AM

To: sen, Carolyn

Subject: Release of 1999-2006 United States Cancer Statistics:

Incidence and

Mortality Web-based Report

The 1999–2006 United States Cancer Statistics (USCS): Incidence and

Mortality Web-based Report marks the eighth time that the Centers for

Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) and the National Cancer Institute

(NCI)

have jointly produced official federal cancer incidence statistics for

each

state having high-quality cancer data. The report is produced in

collaboration with the North American Association of Central Cancer

Registries.

This year's report features information on more than one million

invasive

cancer cases diagnosed during 2006 among residents of 48 states, 6

metropolitan areas, and the District of Columbia—geographic areas in

which

about 96% of the U.S. population reside. Incidence data are from CDC's

National Program of Cancer Registries (NPCR) and NCI's Surveillance,

Epidemiology and End Results (SEER) Program. Data from population-based

central cancer registries in these states and metropolitan areas meet

the

selected criteria for inclusion in this report.

The report also provides cancer mortality data collected and processed

by

CDC's National Center for Health Statistics. Mortality statistics,

based on

records of deaths that occurred during 2006, are available for all 50

states

and the District of Columbia.

The 1999–2006 USCS: Incidence and Mortality Web-based Report, as well as

companion materials based on the report data, are available at

http://www.cdc.gov/uscs.

________________________________________

Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) · 1600 Clifton Rd ·

Atlanta

GA 30333 · 800-CDC-INFO ()

[Guest guest]

Kathy wrote: " What are we going to do about this? "

Kathy I think we did something tonight. A few million more men will have

access to the same care that I have received.

" Il faut d'abord durer " Hemingway

Release of 1999-2006 United States Cancer Statistics: Incidence and

Mortality Web-based Report

The 1999-2006 United States Cancer Statistics (USCS): Incidence and

Mortality Web-based Report marks the eighth time that the Centers for

Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) and the National Cancer Institute (NCI)

have jointly produced official federal cancer incidence statistics for each

state having high-quality cancer data. The report is produced in

collaboration with the North American Association of Central Cancer

Registries.

This year's report features information on more than one million invasive

cancer cases diagnosed during 2006 among residents of 48 states, 6

metropolitan areas, and the District of Columbia-geographic areas in which

about 96% of the U.S. population reside. Incidence data are from CDC's

National Program of Cancer Registries (NPCR) and NCI's Surveillance,

Epidemiology and End Results (SEER) Program. Data from population-based

central cancer registries in these states and metropolitan areas meet the

selected criteria for inclusion in this report.

The report also provides cancer mortality data collected and processed by

CDC's National Center for Health Statistics. Mortality statistics, based on

records of deaths that occurred during 2006, are available for all 50 states

and the District of Columbia.

The 1999-2006 USCS: Incidence and Mortality Web-based Report, as well as

companion materials based on the report data, are available at

http://www.cdc.gov/uscs.

________________________________________

Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) · 1600 Clifton Rd · Atlanta

GA 30333 · 800-CDC-INFO ()

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[Guest guest]

Dan wrote:

> As of yet, I am not diagnosed with PCa, but all the tell tales

> are there, at least according to my urologist. He was to do a

> biopsy last Friday, but I started to have an anxiety attack

> during the process ...

Dan,

Don't sweat the biopsy. It's a minor pain in the you know where.

It will be over in less than an hour and you'll wonder why you

were so worried about it.

If it turns out that you have PCa, there is a much better than

average chance that, either it won't be aggressive enough to need

treatment, or that it can be treated successfully - either to

completely eliminate it, or to keep it from developing and

killing you. More than six people are diagnosed for every one

that dies, and many of those that die are people in whom the

cancer was not discovered until it was already too far gone to be

treatable.

Try not to let anxiety get the better of you. It's pernicious.

Cancer might eventually kill us, but too much anxiety can rob us

of all the pleasure of life.

I know that " try not to let anxiety get the better of you " is

easy to say but can be very, very hard to do. Try as we might,

anxiety can take us over in spite of every effort to resist. You

might consider counseling. There are some counselors who are

very good at helping people through crises like this. There are

also drugs that can help, though I think counseling is far more

useful and long lasting if you can find the right person.

Best of luck.

Alan

[Guest guest]

Dan:

You are human, and your anxiety is very normal and understandable. Do you best to try to relax. FWIW, I was diagnosed almost two years ago (on April 11, 2008) at age 55 with PCa. My surgery was June 11, 2008. These were extremely anxious times for me. Prostate cancer killed my Dad, and I was convinced I was going to die, just as he did.

I'll be 57 tomorrow. So far, the outcomes of my surgery have been very good. My quality of life has remained good. I have become much less anxious (although there are still days). But so far, all is well. As you start down this path, you will learn more and more about this disease and about yourself, and this knowledge and experience will help dispel your anxiety and fear. It will get better. Remember, the folks on this list have been and are going through the same thing you are. We are coping and working our way through this. You will do so also.

As you have observed, the folks on this list are very knowledgeable, helpful and caring. There is a wealth of knowledge and experience here, for which I am personally grateful. I learn new things almost every day from this group. It is appreciated, very much. Thank you!

Coy

, Michigan

FW: Release of 1999-2006 United States Cancer Statistics: Incidence and Mortality Web-based Report

Based on this year's report prostate cancer is now the number 2 cancerkiller in the US . For black men it is a close second after lung cancer. Iwish we could stop arguing about screening and focus how to change thesenumbers. What are we going to do about this?http://apps. nccd.cdc. gov/uscs/ toptencancers. aspx Kathy