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The Independent UK
The Independent UK
Health
Rachel Clun

Why liver cancer rates have doubled in two decades

Liver cancer death rates have nearly doubled in the past two decades - (Getty)

The number of people dying from liver cancer has nearly doubled in the past two decades and is projected to keep rising, new analysis shows, despite around half of cases being preventable.

Liver cancer kills 58,00 people in the UK each year, nearly twice the rate of the late 1990s when that form of cancer killed 2,200 people a year, according to analysis by Cancer Research UK.

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