Which cancer has the highest fatality rate?

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nasturtium41	Lung Cancer, I have always heard that anyway. Best to look up the answer on the Internet. Was this answer helpful to you? Yes / No

Kimmy R	Lung cancer in males and breast cancer in females....and it's the mortality rate...not fatality. Was this answer helpful to you? Yes / No

David W	The 5-year survival figures, not to be confused with the successful treatment of the disease, for the major cancers are: stomach - 5 percent trachea, bronchus and lung -5 percent breast -50 percent oesophagus -5 percent large intestine - 22 percent pancreas - 4 percent liver - 2 percent.1 There has been no significant increase in survival rates since records began. Cancer http://dgwa1.fortunecity.com/body/cancer.html Was this answer helpful to you? Yes / No

hrmom02	I agree with sum4ohio. I think it's pancreatic, but I don't know any statistic. From what I have read, b/c if the location, pancreatic cancer is almost always detected very late. Was this answer helpful to you? Yes / No

nonema	Try searching in www.cancer.org Was this answer helpful to you? Yes / No

sindi	pontine glioma , also known as brainstem cancer , it is always fatal Was this answer helpful to you? Yes / No

sum4ohio	this is what i found http://www.pancan.org/Press/PR-20051101.html EL SEGUNDO, Calif. U.S.A. (November 1, 2005) – Today marks the beginning of National Pancreatic Cancer Awareness Month – a time to educate the public about pancreatic cancer, a little-known disease, which kills one person every 17 minutes in the U.S. Pancreatic cancer, the fourth leading cause of cancer death in the United States, has a 99 percent mortality rate – the highest fatality rate of all cancers; yet it receives the least amount of federal funding of any cancer for research to find effective treatments Was this answer helpful to you? Yes / No