Mortality

A landmark report on deprivation and cancer launched at the Scottish Cancer Conference today shows that the burden of cancer is not felt equally across Scotland. 

A new study has has revealed the variation in the number of people being diagnosed with liver cancer across the UK.

Breast cancer mortality rates have fallen by 10% in five years, according to the latest analysis released by Cancer Research UK ahead of World Cancer Day.

The rate of people dying from bowel cancer in the UK has plummeted by more than 30 per cent in the last 20 years.

Cancer accounted for over a quarter (28%) of all registered deaths in 2015, according to figures released by the Office of National Statistics.

Cancer death rates in the UK have fallen by nearly 10 per cent over 10 years according to the latest analysis released on World Cancer Day.

The rate of children dying from cancer has dropped by 24 per cent in the last decade