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 In recent years, according to the American Cancer Society's Global Cancer Facts & Figures, over 12 million new cancer cases were diagnosed each year and 7.6 million cancer deaths—about 20,000 cancer deaths a day—occurred worldwide.

 Around 150 people are diagnosed with cancer every hour in the United States. Over a year, that amounts to almost 1.6 million people in the United States alone.

 One out of every four Americans is diagnosed with cancer each year. This year about 564,800 Americans are expected to die of cancer—more than 1,500 people a day, day after day, week after week.

 Cancer is the second leading cause of death in the United States, exceeded only by heart disease.

 One of every four deaths in the United States is from cancer.

 Cancer is expensive: the health care industry in the United States—which includes doctors, hospitals and clinics, pharmaceutical companies, manufacturers of medical technology, insurance companies, and so on—comprises around 10% of the Gross Domestic Product (GDP), or around $1.5 trillion in 2011.

 Of the million and a half plus American people with cancer, the vast majority opts for treatment by conventional medicine...and at least 75% receives chemotherapy as part of the routine method for dealing with the disease.

 Chemotherapy, either by itself or in conjunction with radiation and surgery, has become the standard treatment for most cancers in conventional medical practice.