How
common is cancer?
There are more than 200 types of cancer, each
with diff erent causes, symptoms and treatments.
Around 325,000 people were diagnosed with
cancer in 2010 in the UK, that’s around 890
people every day.
Every two minutes someone in the UK is
diagnosed with cancer.
More than 1 in 3 people in the UK will develop
some form of cancer during their lifetime.
The risk of developing cancer up to the age
of 50 years is 1 in 35 for men and 1 in 20 for
women.
Breast, lung, bowel and prostate cancers
together account for over half of all new cancers
each year.
Cancer can develop at any age, but is most
common in older people. More than three out
of fi ve cancers are diagnosed in people aged 65
and over.
Less than one per cent of cancers occur in
children, teenagers and young adults (up to age
24).
Overall cancer incidence rates in Great Britain
have increased by more than a third since the
Half of people diagnosed with cancer now
survive their disease for at least fi ve years.
Cancer survival rates in the UK have doubled in
the last 40 years.
mid-1970s, with almost this entire rise occurring
before the late 1990s.
Cancer incidence rates in Great Britain have risen
by 22% in males and by 42% in females since the
mid-1970s.
There have been large increases in the
incidence of many cancers strongly linked to
lifestyle choices, such as kidney, liver, malignant
melanoma (skin), oral and uterine (womb).
Over the last decade the incidence rate of
stomach cancer has decreased by more than
a quarter for both sexes. The male lung cancer
incidence rate has decreased by almost a sixth.
Worldwide there were estimated to be around
12.7 million new cases of cancer in 2008, and
over half of these were in developing countries.
Cancer is the number one fear for the British
public, feared ahead of debt, knife crime,
Alzheimer’s disease and losing a job.
Almost three-quarters of children are now cured
of their disease, compared with around a quarter
in the late 1960s.
How
many people survive cancer?
KEY FACTS
Cancer
Statistics
How many people die from cancer?
Cancer causes more than one in four of all
deaths in the UK.
More than three-quarters of cancer deaths occur
in people aged 65 and over.
In the UK there were more than 157, 000 deaths
from cancer in 2010.
In the UK in 2010, around 430 people died from
cancer every day, that is one person every four
minutes.
Cancer death rates in the UK have fallen by
around a fi fth over the last thirty years and by 10%
over the last decade.
More than one in fi ve of all cancer deaths are
from lung cancer.
Worldwide, it is estimated that around 7.6 million
people died from cancer in 2008.
April 2013
An individual’s risk of developing cancer depends
on many factors, including age, lifestyle and genetic
make-up.
More than 40% of all cancers in the UK are linked to
tobacco, alcohol, diet, being overweight, inactivity,
infection, radiation, occupation, post-menopausal
hormones or breastfeeding.
Cigarette smoking is the single most important cause
of preventable death in the UK.
Smoking causes nearly a fifth of all cancers in the UK
(including over 80% of lung cancers).
Each year in the UK, around 17,000 cases of cancer
are linked to being overweight or obese.
Around 12,500 cancers in the UK each year are linked
to alcohol.
Research suggests that each of the following increase
the risk of certain cancers: a low fibre
diet, low consumption of fruit and vegetables,
high consumption of red and processed meats
and higher intake of salt or saturated fats.
Excessive exposure UV radiation (from the sun
or sunbeds) is the most important modifiable risk
factor for skin cancers.
Physical activity protects against colon, breast
and womb cancer, independently of its effect on
bodyweight.
A few infectious agents, especially certain viruses,
play a key role in causing certain types of cancer.
Factors such as the age at which a women has
her first child, number of children, and whether
or not she breastfeeds, affect risk of the most
common female cancers.
Nearly 4% of cancers in the UK are linked to
occupation..
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