In general, states of north east has higher risk of cancer than those of the west. In terms of death rate, it is relevant to life expectancy-states with higher risk of death caused by cancer have lower life expectancy. MS, WV, AL LA OK has the lowest life expectancy, all of those state ranked high in death risk.
Basically, most of the life loss in this chart happened in the first two years. This chart explain why the 5 years survival rate is a critical medical term. The inflection point of this chart is located around 5 years, the survival rate starts to become flat. The survival rate of people who live for more than 5 years are less likely to be affected by cancer.
From the chart above, pancreas cancer is the most deadly one, while prostate cancer, which is actually quite easy to happen to male, have the highest survival rate. If diagnosed in advanced stages, the rate of survival is significantly dropped.
Cigarette smoking is the number one risk factor for lung cancer. In the United States, cigarette smoking causes about 90% of lung cancers. Using other tobacco products such as cigars or pipes also increases the risk for lung cancer. The diagram below shows how the lung cancer incidence rate in U.S related to the cigarette.
