1.   Breast cancer is the second-leading cancer killer of American women after lung cancer and the most frequently diagnosed form of the disease.

2.   Except for skin cancer, prostate cancer is the most commonly diagnosed type in men and their second leading cause of cancer death, behind lung cancer.

3.   Prostate cancer is the most commonly diagnosed malignancy in American men, and the second leading cause of death from cancer in American men.

4.   Cancers of the colon and rectum are the fourth most commonly diagnosed cancers and rank second for causing cancer deaths in the United States.

5.   Skin cancer is the most frequently diagnosed type of cancer, more than all other cancer cases combined, according to the Journal of the American Academy of Dermatology.