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InnovAiT 2008 1(5):364-373; doi:10.1093/innovait/inn004
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Prevention of cancer

Dr Max Watson

Consultant Palliative Medicine Northern Ireland Hospice, Belfast, UK

E-mail: alimaxuk{at}yahoo.com


  Abstract

In 2005 in the UK, there were 153 491 deaths from cancer—one in four of all deaths (29% of male and 24% of female deaths). Seventy-six percent of these deaths occur in people aged over 65. Death rates rise with increasing age. However, cancer causes a greater proportion of deaths in younger people, with cancer being responsible for 37% of deaths in those under 65 (47% of deaths of women; 31% of deaths of men). Lung cancer is the most common cause of cancer death in both men and women (Fig. 1).


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