Cancer is the disease in which abnormal cells divide uncontrollably and destroy body tissue. In America, this disease kills more than half a million people a year, making it the second leading cause of death in the country, exceeded only by heart disease, according to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. More than 1,600 people a day died of cancer in the U.S. in 2013 alone.
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