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What percentage of deaths are related to cancer?
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20-30%: Cancer is the second leading cause of death in the us and about a quarter of all deaths are due to cancer. Heart disease is the number one cause of death.
Answered 6/1/2012
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About 20%: I believe that as usual, dr. Singh is correct. Government figures will give numbers as low as 13%, but in my experience doing autopsies on the elderly, cancer is often missed and death attributed wrongly to cardiovascular disease.
Answered 7/19/2012
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