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Some people use statistics to try to figure out their chances of getting lymphoma or of being cured. However, statistics show what happens to large groups of people. But no two people are alike. So statistics can’t be used to predict what will happen to a certain person. This is especially true for this lymphoma because there are many types. How lymphoma pro gresses depends on the type you have.
Here are some 2007 statistics from the American Cancer Society about non-Hodgkin’s lymphoma.
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About 63,000 people will be told they have non-Hodgkin’s lymphoma in 2006. An estimated 9,000 will die of it in the United States.
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Non-Hodgkin's lymphoma is the fifth most common cancer, not including nonmelanoma skin cancers.
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A person’s risk of developing lymphoma during his or her lifetime is about 1 in 50. A person’s risk of dying of it is about 1 in 100.
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The average age of people with lymphoma at the time of diagnosis is 60. More than 95% of cases occur in adults. Some types of non-Hodgkin’s lymphoma are common in children.
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African Americans and Asian Americans are less likely to develop non-Hodgkin's lymphoma than Caucasians.