Cancer: The challenge facing the NHS

[annie]

When it comes to cancer, there are a mountain of statistics.

But if you want to understand the challenge facing the nation, simply consider this: The disease has now become so common that one out of every two people born after 1960 will develop it during their lifetime.

It means that every two minutes someone in England is diagnosed with the disease.

The major cause is, of course, the fact we are living longer. But lifestyle factors, such as smoking, drinking and obesity are also playing a role.

It means over the past 40 years the number of cancer diagnoses has more than doubled

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/health-33570485

[wendy]

there is nothing new, My grandfather and my mother and step father died from cancer.