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Advocacy > NHL Statistics > Comparing NHL and AIDS

Last update: 05/14/2003

AIDS

NHL

Adults/Adolescents   +   Total
  (Estimated) **
Cases Diagnosed  Deaths  Cases Diagnosed   Deaths
During 1999 During 1999 During 2000 During 2000

  25,434

10,198 54,900 26,100
 
NCI 2000 Budget ***
AIDS = 244.1  NHL = 70.4  Leukemia = 141.7

*Source: U.S. DEPT. OF HEALTH & HUMAN SVCES         **Source: American Cancer Society
Public Health Service CDC
AIDS Deaths=16,273 in 1999 from 50,610 in 1995-NYT Science section, June 6, 2001
*** NCI (Dollars in Millions)

 
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