Cancer facts from Cancer Research UK
| • | Every two minutes someone in the UK is diagnosed with cancer |
| • | More than one in three people in the UK will develop some form of cancer |
| • | Half the people diagnosed with cancer now survive for at least five years |
| • | Cancer survival rates in the UK have doubled in the last 40 years |
| • | Cancer is the UK public’s number one fear, feared above debt, knife crime, Alzheimer’s and losing a job |
| • | More than three in five cancers are diagnosed in people aged over 65 |
| • | More than one in five of all cancer deaths are from lung cancer |
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