Cancer is the 2nd most deadly disease in the United States, after heart disease. There has been a great deal of progress in treating it in the last 25 years. The five-year survivability rate has soared from 50% in 1970 to 65% these days But cancer still claims hundreds of thousands of lives each year. [...]
The list as a format has probably been around since the dawn of man and his itch to rank things from worse to better. Pros and cons of objects including, but not limited to, girlfriends, job opportunities, party beverages and current leadership.
Ranking ten items specifically, known as a top ten list, is an invention without known origin. Wikipedia holds no answers, and neither do we. Some credit is however due to a certain Indianapolist, who've made the top 10 list a classic feature on his show, of which we of course have listed our
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