• Question: how many people get inffected and die beacuse of cancer every year ?

    Asked by lolypop to Amar, Ana, Andrea, Leah, Matt on 13 Mar 2014.
    • Photo: Anastasia Wass

      Anastasia Wass answered on 13 Mar 2014:

      I didn’t know this but I had a look on the cancer research UK website and they say that in 2011, 331487 were diagnosed with cancer, only about 1/3 of these people actually died of cancer though.

    • Photo: Amar Joshi

      Amar Joshi answered on 13 Mar 2014:

      The UN reckons there were 14million new cancer cases in 2012, and that cancers caused 8 million deaths in 2012 worldwide – lung, liver, stomach, colon and breast cancers cause the most deaths.

    • Photo: Andrea Hanvey

      Andrea Hanvey answered on 13 Mar 2014:

      In the UK 1 in 3 people will develop cancer in their lifetime, around 910 people are diagnosed with cancer everyday in the UK.

    • Photo: Leah Fitzsimmons

      Leah Fitzsimmons answered on 14 Mar 2014:

      Around 1 in every 4 people died of cancer in 2011, which sounds quite scary, but the good news is that the number of people surviving cancer increases every year. In the last 20 years the number of people who die because of cancer has decreased by about 20%.
      For some cancers where there are new screening programs and treatments becoming available (like bowel cancer) it is predicted that the number of people who die of their cancer could halve.

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