10 Frightening Lung-Cancer Statistics and 3 Top Companies Looking to Do Something About It [The Motley Fool]
Merck & Company, Inc. (new) (MRK)
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Cancer immunotherapies and targeted therapies offer renewed hope to lung-cancer patients. There's arguably no scarier six-letter word than cancer. As the U.S. population has grown, so has the prevalence of cancer diagnoses... and deaths. The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention finds that cancer is the second-leading cause of death in the U.S., contributing to nearly 596,000 deaths in 2016. By sometime next decade, it's expected to surpass heart disease and become America's No. 1 killer. But not all cancers are alike. For example, the American Cancer Society's (ACS) annual report, Cancer Facts and Figures 2017, shows that five-year survival rates in prostate cancer and female breast cancer, two of the most commonly diagnosed cancer types, have risen to 99% and 91%, respectively, between 2006 to 2012. Five-year survival rates were just 75% for female breast cancer and 68% for prostate cancer between 1975 and 1977. Improvements in medicines to treat these diseases, along
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- 4/25/24 - Beat
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- 4/25/24 - Form 8-K
- 4/11/24 - Form ARS
- 4/11/24 - Form DEFA14A
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