Yahoo! News - Cancer Deaths Down in U.S., Report Finds
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - More Americans are surviving cancer for five years or more and cancer rates overall are steadily declining, according to the latest annual report on cancer in the United States issued on Thursday.

For the first time, fewer women are being diagnosed with lung cancer, the joint report from the American Cancer Society, Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, the National Cancer Institute, and the North American Association of Central Cancer Registries finds.

Cancer remains the second leading cause of death in the United States behind heart disease. This year 1.368 million Americans will learn they have cancer and 563,700 will die of it.

Good news, although I wish that we would take all that money we are spending on war and put it toward research to find a cure(s) for the various forms of this disease.

All my thoughts, hopes and prayers are with my friend Marybeth today as she faces surgery to remove two tumors from her brain. I hope that they can get it all and then find a chemo that works for her, give her a fighting chance to continue on with her life. It's hard to say that you "love" someone that you only know through the internet, but as far as that goes, I do. She's a great lady who has been very kind to me, and I'm honored that she considers me a friend.

Hang in there, kiddo. See you when you get home.