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This is your brain on cancer.
Signal Disruption
Cancer of the brain and nervous system have the 15th highest incidence rate and 11th highest mortality rate1. The probability of developing and/or dying of this type of cancer over your lifetime is less than 1%. Brain and CNS (central nervous system) cancers have a greater prevalence in children and young adults, making up 19% and 7% of cancer cases among 0-14- and 15-29-year-olds, respectively2. The 5-year (relative) survival for brain/CNS cancers is 23%1.
A daffodil for brain and CNS cancer awareness
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1 Cancer Research Society "Brain and Nervous System" http://www.crs-src.ca/page.aspx?pid=1307
2 Canadian Cancer Society’s Advisory Committee on Cancer Statistics. Canadian Cancer Statistics 2014. Toronto, ON: Canadian Cancer Society; 2014. Link to document: cancer.ca/statistics
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