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. (more…)
