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In modern society cancer is the disease most feared by the majority of people throughout the world, supplanting the "white death," or tuberculosis, of the last century; the "black death," or bubonic plague, of the Middle Ages; and the leprosy of biblical times. ....

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.... or rectum cancer, a disease that mainly strikes the elderly. In the United States in the mid-1980s, more than one-fifth of all deaths were caused by cancer; only the cardiovascular diseases accounted for a higher percentage. In 1990 the American Cancer Society predicted that about 30 percent of Americans will eventually develop some form of the disease. In the United States skin cancer is the most prevalent cancer in both men and women. Lung cancer, however, causes the most deaths in both men and women. LEUKEMIA, or cancer of the blood, is the most common type seen in children. An increasing incidence of cancer has been clearly observable over t ....