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The Independent UK
The Independent UK
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Jane Dalton

Number of people diagnosed with cancer in UK ‘will rise by a third by 2040’

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The number of people in the UK diagnosed with cancer will rise by a third by 2040, taking the number of new cases every year to more than half a million for the first time, experts predict.

Analysis by Cancer Research UK finds that, on current trends, cancer cases will rise from the 384,000 cases diagnosed every year now to 506,000 in the next 17 years.

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