{"id":397485,"date":"2018-02-02T11:00:09","date_gmt":"2018-02-02T11:00:09","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/citifmonline.com\/?p=397485"},"modified":"2018-02-02T15:45:46","modified_gmt":"2018-02-02T15:45:46","slug":"prostate-cancer-deaths-overtake-breast-cancer","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/2018\/02\/prostate-cancer-deaths-overtake-breast-cancer\/","title":{"rendered":"Prostate cancer deaths overtake those from breast cancer"},"content":{"rendered":"
The number of men dying from prostate cancer has overtaken female deaths from breast cancer for the first time in the UK, figures show.<\/p>\n
An ageing population means more men are developing and dying from the disease.<\/p>\n
Prostate Cancer UK says advances in the diagnosis and treatment of breast cancer are paying off, and increased funding could benefit prostate cancer.<\/p>\n
The biggest cancer killers in the UK remain lung and bowel cancer, with prostate now in third place.<\/p>\n
The latest figures from 2015 show there were 11,819 deaths from prostate cancer compared with 11,442 from breast cancer.<\/p>\n
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Although deaths from prostate cancer have been rising over the past 10 years or so, the mortality rate or the proportion of men dying from the disease has fallen – by 6% – between 2010 and 2015.<\/p>\n
For breast cancer the mortality rate has come down by 10%, meaning deaths in women are declining more quickly.<\/p>\n