People dying early of cancer costs UK economy £10.3bn a year, study finds

A record 2.8 million people across the UK are too sick to work amid a sluggish economy. Photograph: PeopleImages.com/Yuri A/Shutterstock/PeopleImages.com - Yuri A

People dying early of cancer costs the UK economy £10.3bn a year, more than any other health condition, a study has revealed.

That is the total cost of the 350,000 years of lost productivity recorded across Britain every year because adults have died prematurely of the disease, according to Cancer Research UK (CRUK).