{"id":88297,"date":"2015-02-04T10:15:47","date_gmt":"2015-02-04T10:15:47","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/4cd.e16.myftpupload.com\/?p=88297"},"modified":"2015-02-04T10:15:47","modified_gmt":"2015-02-04T10:15:47","slug":"half-uk-people-will-get-cancer","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/?p=88297","title":{"rendered":"‘Half of UK people’ will get cancer"},"content":{"rendered":"

One in two people in the UK will be diagnosed with cancer at some point in their lives, analysis suggests.<\/p>\n

Cancer Research UK said this estimate, using a new calculation method, replaced a forecast of more than one in three people developing the disease.<\/p>\n

It said longer life expectancies meant more people would be affected.<\/p>\n

But it was not inevitable and improving lifestyle, such as losing weight and quitting smoking, could have a major impact, the charity added.<\/p>\n

The good news is cancer survival figures are also rising.<\/p>\n

The seemingly sudden jump in diagnosis estimates is down to researchers developing a more sophisticated and accurate method for analysing the risk of cancer.<\/p>\n

However, both the new and old methods show the same long-term trend – a rise in the lifetime risk of developing cancer.<\/p>\n

Nearly 54% of men will develop cancer, compared with just under 48% of women, the figures indicate.<\/p>\n

Food pipe tumours<\/span><\/strong><\/p>\n

Fewer deaths from heart disease and infections mean more people are living long enough to develop cancer.<\/p>\n

But lead researcher Professor Peter Sasieni, from Queen Mary University of London, said: “It isn’t inevitable.<\/p>\n

“There is quite a lot we can do to prevent cancer and hopefully in many years’ time I’ll have been proven completely wrong.”<\/p>\n

He is referring to lifestyle factors including obesity, red meat consumption and smoking that increase the odds of a tumour developing.<\/p>\n

Lung cancer cases are still increasing in women.<\/p>\n

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Breast cancer is likely to remain the most common cancer among women<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

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He told the BBC that a healthy lifestyle could lower the lifetime risk from 50% to 30%.<\/p>\n

Breast and prostate cancers are likely to remain the most common cancers in women and men respectively.<\/p>\n

However, some cancers are rapidly becoming more common.<\/p>\n

Tumours in the food pipe, caused by acid reflux in obesity, are being seen more often in clinics.<\/p>\n

Head and neck cancers caused by the human papillomavirus are increasing and oral sex is thought to be behind the rise.<\/p>\n

‘Milestone’<\/span><\/strong><\/p>\n

Dr Harpal Kumar, the chief executive of Cancer Research UK, said: “We have reached what many would regard as an important milestone.<\/p>\n

“We need to plan ahead to make sure the NHS is fit to cope, if the NHS doesn’t act and invest now, we will face a crisis in the future – with outcomes from cancer going backwards.”<\/p>\n

Dr Emma King, a head and neck surgeon at Poole Hospital, in Dorset, said rising cancer cases would have a “huge impact on clinical services offered by the NHS”.<\/p>\n

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The NHS needs to act to avoid a future cancer crisis, experts say<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

She said there needed to be more focus on prevention and strategies to ensure cancers were caught early.<\/p>\n

It is far easier to treat an early stage cancer so a patient is more likely to live and it saves the NHS money.<\/p>\n

Sean Duffy, the national clinical director for cancer at NHS England, said: “Cancer survival rates in England are at an all-time high, but this new forecast shows it is more important than ever to take a fresh look at how we can do even better.”<\/p>\n

He said there needed to be action on three fronts – better prevention; swifter diagnosis; and better treatment, care and aftercare for all patients.<\/p>\n

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Source: BBC<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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