11. Doctors also are busy this time of year getting out the message that skin cancer kills. 12. Dr. Wende Logan-Young, a breast cancer specialist, says her own mother-in-law hid a breast lump for five years, until cancer killed her. 13. In later years his fine eyes were dimmed by cataracts, his seductive voice killed by cancer. 14. In the large intestine, colorectal cancer alone kills more Americans than any cancer outside the lungs. 15. Linda McCartney did everything right, and breast cancer still killed her. 16. Mostly, the fear was of dying, of becoming a statistic, of becoming one of the thousands that cancer kills every year. 17. Overall, cancer kills more than a half-million Americans each year, according to the American Cancer Society. 18. Pancreatic cancer had killed at a rate five times the national average. 19. Prostate cancer now kills more men than any other malady except lung cancer. 20. The tag line from this European public awareness spot announces that lung cancer kills three times as many people as AIDS. |