Title: Why are cancer rates increasing? - Cancer Research UK - Cancer news
Headings: Why are cancer rates increasing?
Why are cancer rates increasing?
What’s the cancer rate in the UK?
Why cancer rates are rising
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Content: Previously we’ve calculated that more than 1 in 3 people would develop cancer at some point during their life – in other words, the so-called ‘ lifetime risk’ was more than 1 in 3. But our latest estimate, which uses the most accurate calculation method to date, now puts our chances of developing the disease at 1 in 2. Let’s be clear – this isn’t a sudden increase in risk. The different numbers are down to a change in the method used to make the calculation. But they reveal a gradual increase in risk, that’s taken place over decades. So this begs the obvious question: just why is our risk increasing? The simple answer is, as the animation above shows: most of us are living longer. Why cancer rates are rising
By far the biggest risk factor for most cancers is simply getting older.