Key cancer facts, UK

Main Category: Cancer / Oncology
Article Date: 06 Sep 2004 - 0:00 PDT

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-- Cancer is one of the biggest killers in the UK, accounting for a quarter of all deaths

-- 1 in 3 people will be diagnosed with cancer at some stage in their lives

-- Approximately 1 in 4 people will die from cancer

-- 151,190 people died from cancer in the UK in 2000

-- There are more than 200 different types of cancer

-- 65% of cases occur in those over 65

-- Breast, lung, large bowel (colorectal) and prostate cancer account for over half of all new cases

-- Lung cancer is the biggest cancer-related killer (22% of all cancer-related deaths in the UK), followed by large bowel, or colorectal, cancer (11%), breast cancer (8%) and prostate cancer (6%)

-- In children and teenagers, leukaemia is the most common cancer, representing one-third of all cases

-- Survival rates for common cancers in the UK continue to be much lower than the European average

-- The most common cancers in women are breast, large bowel, lung, ovarian and cancer of the body of the uterus

-- Breast cancer is by far the most common cancer in women, accounting for 30 per cent of all new cases

-- The most common cancers in men are lung, prostate, bowel, bladder and stomach cancer

-- In young men aged 20-39, testicular cancer is the most frequently occurring cancer

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