Medicare determines the expected staffing time per resident per day depending on level of care the residents of Grimes Center require. It is important to compare the reported time to expected time for a single facility instead of comparing the amount of time per resident of two facilities. Learn why.
5. Prostate cancer: 144,926 lives. This cancer is the second-leading cause of cancer deaths in men, after lung and bronchial cancer, according to the NCI. Prostate cancer usually starts to grow slowly in the prostate gland, which produces the seminal fluid to transport sperm.
It kills more people than breast, colorectal and. prostate cancers combined.1 Each year 1.38 million. people die as a result of the disease, equating to more. than 3,000 deaths a day worldwide, or two deaths. every minute.1,2. Five year survival rates for lung cancer. are poor when compared to other high. incidence cancers.