• Question: what is the cancer that kills the most people annualy in the uk?????

    Asked by logic to Tim, Sarah on 15 Jun 2011. This question was also asked by adw4.
    • Photo: Tim Millar

      Tim Millar answered on 15 Jun 2011:

      In the UK its Lung cancer

      http://info.cancerresearchuk.org/cancerstats/mortality/cancerdeaths/

      The CRUK website is a very good resource.

    • Photo: Sarah Thomas

      Sarah Thomas answered on 15 Jun 2011:

      Yes Tim is correct, and you can see the stats in the link he gave you. Lung cancer accounted for 22% of all cancer deaths in the UK in 2008 – and that might not sound like a lot but given that there are over 200 different types of cancer then that is a very high proportion.

      The other most common cancer deaths were colorectal cancer, breast cancer and prostate cancer.

      In the UK 1 in 4 deaths are caused by cancer.

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