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Music affects us all either directly or by affecting someone we know the numbers are sobering one out of every two men and one out of every three women will develop cancer in their lifetime today I'd like to talk with you about the importance of collecting and using cancer data provided by the national program of cancer registries or NPC our cancer is a major public health problem in the United States premature deaths lost productivity cost of cancer and its treatment and the long-term effects of cancer and cancer treatment on quality of life all take a huge toll on everyone from the person with cancer to the society as a whole understanding the scope of the cancer burden in the United States better begins with knowing more about the people who have or have had cancer CDC's NPC our program supports forty five states and collecting complete information on almost 1.6 million new cancer cases each year this includes information on where the cancer is located how widely it has spread and h