If you want the source where ACS gets their data, go to the resources page of our site and click on the SEER link. It stands for the government monitoring process..... surveilence, epidimiology and end results. Poor a system as it is it is all we have in the US to monitor death rates, incidence etc.

Also search here on the message board for SEER, it has been discussed before.

Brian, stage 4 oral cancer survivor. OCF Founder and Director. The first responsibility of a leader is to define reality. The last is to say thank you. In between, the leader is a servant.