What are the Ten Most Common Cancers?

The most common type of cancer women and men both can have is basal or squamous cell skin cancer.

clipped from www.wisegeek.com For men the most common cancer is prostate cancer, with an incidence of .16%. Second in line, and actually most deadly is lung cancer, occurring in .088% of each group of 100,000 men. Cancer of the colon/rectum follows with an incidence of .0627%. Cancer of the bladder affects .0369% of the general male population. Non-Hodgkin’s Lymphoma affects .0217%. The sixth most common cancer for men is melanoma occurring in about .0198% of the male adult population. Kidney cancer occurs in about .0173% of the population. Pharynx and throat cancer affects about .0173% of all men. Leukemia develops in .0148% of males. The tenth most common cancer is cancer of the pancreas with a .0123% rate of occurrence. n women the most common cancer is breast cancer, with a .1272% of occurrence in women of all age and racial groups. Second is cancer of the lungs affecting .0532% of women. Colon and rectal cancer is the third most common cancer, occurring in about .0458% of the female population.