Published 21 October 2008, doi:10.1136/bmj.a2198
Cite this as: BMJ 2008;337:a2198

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Death rates from cancer in the UK are predicted to fall further

Rebecca Coombes

1 London

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The risk of dying from cancer before the age of 84 in the United Kingdom will continue to fall for most types of the disease for the next two decades, a new study predicts.

Researchers from the charity Cancer Research UK looked at data on the numbers of people dying from 21 of the commonest cancers and have predicted a 17% fall in the death rate in men and 16% in that in women from 2003 to 2023 (British Journal of Cancer, doi:10.1038/sj.bjc.6604710).

They used trends in mortality from 1970 to 2005 to project what cancer death rates are likely to be in the next 20 years.

In men the largest projected fall in the risk of dying was for stomach cancer (a 43% drop over the next 20 years). In women the risk of death from cervical cancer is predicted to fall by 57% over . . . [Full text of this article]


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