The United States Congress is the national federal legislative body of the United States of America. Congress is divided into two bodies: the House of Representatives and the Senate. The citizens of the United States elect the people that make up these bodies.
This year about 564,800 Americans are expected to die of cancer more than 1,500 people a day. Cancer is the second leading cause of death in the US, exceeded only by heart disease. One of every four deaths in the US is from cancer.
The most common cause of cancer deaths in both men and women, in the United States and worldwide, is lung cancer. It's estimated that in 2017 there will be about 155,870 deaths from lung cancer. This is greater than the number of deaths from breast cancer (41,070), prostate cancer (26,730), and colon and rectal cancers (50,260) combined.