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Originally Posted by DougB

The 2012 Annual Support on Cancer For Leesburg and The Villages Regional Hospitals states one in two males and one in three females will be stricken with cancer in one form or another, which would be about 40%

http://www.cfhalliance.org/PDF/AnnualCancerReport.pdf

Interesting analysis, but not necessarily statistically accurate.(Good try though!) Unfortunately many people who get cancer die from their disease. Thankfully many others do survive. So determining who is living as a cancer survivor after having a stage one or greater cancer may be a much smaller number than the number of people who have gotten cancer over their lifetime. Look to the NCI or other national data bases for accurate estimates of cancer incidence in the US population. They break it down by types of cancers as well as separate them by age and sex. You can also look up statistics for the number of cancer survivors in the USA and this will give you a good estimate of the percentage of people in the country who are alive today and have survived cancer. The number may be lower than you think.