charity quick facts on cancer in memory of...   Roland H. Dodson   Jacobus H. Christiaanse     home | registration | the event | multimedia | charity | sponsors | the game | contact   Quick facts on cancer Canadians list cancer as their #1 health concern. One in three Canadians will develop some form of cancer in his/her lifetime. An estimated 145,500 new cases of cancer will be diagnosed in 2004 and an estimated 68,300 people died from the disease. Given current trends, as a result of our growing and aging population the number of new cancer cases will increase by an estimated 60 per cent over the next 20 years.