• Question: how common is cancer

    Asked by guiltyalchemy to Claire, Elizabeth, Mark, Zach on 19 Mar 2014. This question was also asked by chrisp.
    • Photo: Claire Vinten

      Claire Vinten answered on 19 Mar 2014:

      Cancer is supposed to affect one in three people in the UK. That is a lot, isn’t it?

      Some types of cancer are more common than others. For example, breast cancer is the most common cause of cancer in the UK, and lung cancer is the second most common.

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