Ten percent drop in United Kingdom cancer death rates in the previous decade

On the other hand, the most common cancers among women are breast, lung and bronchus, colorectum, and esophagus being responsible for almost 60% of all cases.

Lorraine Barton, Macmillan Cancer information and support nurse, said: “World Cancer Day is important in raising awareness as we know that cancer affects nearly everyone, whether directly or because they know a family member or friend that’s been affected”.

The figures were released to mark World Cancer Day.

The charity believe that every day 84 people in the South West are diagnosed with cancer; in 2003, 299 in every 100,000 patients died from the disease; now it is said that it has fallen to 273.

For some cancers, such as liver and pancreatic, death rates have increased.

Further encouraging news is seen in the narrowing gap between men and women’s cancer death rates.

PEOPLE in Bury are being urged to “band together” for World Cancer Day.

In 2013, 284 out of every 100,000 people in the United Kingdom died from cancer – around 162,000 people.

Experts said that individuals living in rural areas are most at risk, where the soil and water are often contaminated, exposing them to many environmental carcinogens, while the most preventable causes of cancer death was chronic infection (stomach, intestines, etc.), responsible for 29% of deaths.

Britain’s growing population – and the fact that a greater proportion of the population is elderly – means the total number of deaths attributed to cancer are still rising slightly each year. American researchers who examined the risk of cancer among people who spend most of their waking hours sitting found that chronically stationary people who did not exercise much or at all had a 43% higher risk of ovarian cancer, 10% higher risk of breast cancer and 65% more multiple myeloma (involving the white blood cells).

In Bootle, Cancer Research UK nurses will be working with NHS South Sefton Clinical Commissioning Group (CCG) in support of World Cancer Day, which is holding a raft of events at the recently-opened Strand by Me shop on Wednesday and Thursday. “Together we can all do something to reduce the impact of this devastating disease“.

Environmental differences could also play a part in the rate at which cancer is being detected in China, the report says.

Cancer diagnoses and deaths among Israelis put this country in the top 20 in the world.

‘This is because the population is growing and more of us are living longer.

Suspected lung cancer sufferers in Manchester will get a diagnosis in just seven days, with the aim of starting treatment within 14 days of referral by a GP or other health professional. From lung and oesophageal, to bowel and skin cancer.

“We’d like everyone to be body and cancer aware and learn about changes in their body and the signs and symptoms of cancer”. According to the American Cancer Society, being physically active can cut cancer risk by 30-to-40 percent, with those who are the most active reaping the most benefit.