One in two people in the UK will get cancer

Tuesday, February 3, 2015 - 22:00 in Health & Medicine

One in two people will develop cancer at some point in their lives, according to the most accurate forecast to date from the UK. Age is the biggest risk factor for most cancers, and the increase in lifetime risk is primarily because more people are surviving into old age, when cancer is more common.

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