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Some Examples of Cancers |
Skin Cancer
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Skin cancer is the second most common cancer in the UK with about 40,000 new cases every year.
6,000 of these cases are dangerous malignant melanomas like the one in the picture.
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1,500 people die from melanomas each year in the UK.
By the year 2001 one person in every 150 (about 400,000) people in the UK will get malignant melanoma.
There is strong evidence that melanomas occur on sun damaged skin.
If detected early skin cancer now has a 99% cure rate.
Childhood Leukaemia
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Cancer is the second leading cause of death in children under 14 years of age
There are about 600 new cases every year of childhood leukaemia.
Great advances have been made in the treatment of leukaemia
- In the 1950's almost all children with leukaemia died.
- In 1968 only about 1 in 7 children with leukaemia survived for more than 5 years.
- In 1992 about 4 in every 5 children with leukaemia survived for more than 5 years.
Breast Cancer
Breast cancer affects about 35,000 women in the UK every year.
- In 1995 about 14,000 women died of breast cancer, about 270 women every week.
- 1 in 11 women in the UK will develop breast cancer.
- Breast cancer is the biggest killer of women in the UK aged 35 to 54 despite improvements in treatment.
- In 1942 4 in 10 women with breast cancer survived more than 5 years.
- In 1992 more than 7 in 10 women with breast cancer survived more than 5 years.
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