TORONTO - The Canadian Cancer Society says the cancer death toll is on the decline.
Its latest report released Wednesday says close to 100,000 lives have been saved in Canada over the past 20 years because of the declining cancer death rate.
The organization attributes the decrease to advances in treatments and a drop in smoking rates.
Prostate cancer remains the most commonly diagnosed cancer in Canadian men -- while for women, it's breast cancer.
The report notes, however, that the death rate for breast cancers has dropped by almost 40 per cent since peaking in 1986.
Global News takes a look at 2012 Canadian cancer rates and statistics:
100,000,000 – Number of lives saved over the past 20 years from 1988 to 2007
186,400 – Estimated number of new cases of cancer
75,700 – Number of deaths expected to occur from cancer in 2012-05-09
500 – Number of Canadians diagnosed with cancer daily
21, 700 – Estimated number of new cancer diagnoses for Canadians between the ages of 0 to 49 for 2012
27 – Percentage of cancer deaths attributed to lung cancer
53 – Percentage of newly diagnosed cases of cancers that will be lung, colorectal, prostate and breast cancers
69 – Percentage of new cases occurring among those 50 to 79 years of age
62 – Percentage of cancer deaths occurring among those 50 to 79 years of age
14 – Percentage of Canadian women who smoked in 2010, compared to 38 per cent of Canadian women who smoked in 1965
2 – Percentage liver cancer mortality increased in males per year between 1998 and 2007
- Source: Canadian Cancer Statistics 2012. With files from The Associated Press
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