Wow - by your ignorant reply I assume you can neither read for comprehension nor do simple arithmetic.... Sigh - let me walk you through this since you are unable to do it with your obviously meager intellect...There are about 300 MILLION AMERICANS!50% of 300 MILLION is what?! It isn't 559, 888!! Dou che...And by the way, the site you call "...misleading double-speak..." is a WHITE-PAPER from the AMERICAN CANCER SOCIETY! If you even read it - which you clearly didn't - you would've seen in the first paragraph that these statistics use the most up-to-date CDC number AS WELL AS numbers from the National Cancer Institute, AND the National Center for Health Statistics!!Steve Greska is a fool.   See 2 other replies

How about you stop linking misleading double speak? From CDC for 2006:
Leading Causes of Death
(Data are for the U.S.)
Number of deaths for leading causes of death
* Heart disease: 631,636
* Cancer: 559,888
* Stroke (cerebrovascular diseases): 137,119
* Chronic lower respiratory diseases: 124,583
* Accidents (unintentional injuries): 121,599
* Diabetes: 72,449
* Alzheimer's disease: 72,432
* Influenza and Pneumonia: 56,326
* Nephritis, nephrotic syndrome, and nephrosis: 45,344
* Septicemia: 34,234   See 2 other replies