Around 2000 to 3000 people diagnosed with mesothelioma per year. Because cancer is rare, many patients and their relatives do not know what cancer is and what exactly makes a diagnosis of mesothelioma. Questions about the prognosis and mortality mesothelioma often surface.
According to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC), malignant mesothelioma death in the United States from 1999 to 2005 was 18,068 people. The death has increased from 2,482 deaths in 1999 to 2704 in 2005, an increase of 222 deaths.
The men are diagnosed with mesothelioma more often than women and men is 80.8 per cent of mesothelioma deaths during this period (a total of 14,591). The whites are 95.1 percent of deaths from mesothelioma, a total of 17,180.
Effect of age on mortality, aged 75 and over, the majority of patients died of mesothelioma (8858 total deaths). Deaths in patients aged 44 years or less was 311, or 1.7 percent.
During the period covered by the study of the CDC, the state was the death rate from mesothelioma more than the national rate of 13.8 deaths per million people per year. In six countries, the mesothelioma mortality rate was over 20 per million population per year.
The death rate from mesothelioma is highest in Maine, at 27.5 percent (173 total), followed by Wyoming (22.2 per cent, 50 dead), West Virginia (21 percent of 182 deaths ), Pennsylvania (20.8 percent, death 1210), New Jersey (20.2 percent, 814 deaths) and Washington (20.1 percent, 558 deaths).
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