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Cancer cost $94.4 billion in lost earnings and 8.7 million years of life in 2015

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Cancer took more than 8.7 million years of life and $94.4 billion in lost earnings among people ages 16 to 84 in the United States in 2015. The calculation comes from a new report by American Cancer Society researchers that appears early online in JAMA Oncology.

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