There are a great many wonderful people that die of cancer in a year. This number is in the thousands.
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over 100,000 children die of cancer a year.
According to the American Cancer Society and the CDC, approximately 163,500 people are expected to die of lung cancer in the USA in 2005. They also estimate that 172,500 people were diagnosed with the disease in 2005 as well.
It is the #1 killer in America currently. 1 in 4 Americans are diagnosed with cancer. As of 2008 565,650 people in America were expected to die from cancer. It has affected roughly 7.3 million people that are currently living worldwide. It kills over 1,500 U.S. citizens every day. And it kills nearly 547,500 Americans in a single year; that number is rising.