British researchers predict that cancer cases would rise as people live longer

#cancerresearchuk #publichealth #nhs Cancer Research UK has announced that every second person in the UK would fall victim to cancer during their lifetime because the life expectancy has improved and people are, today, living longer and cancer is usually associated with old age. This has been reported in news.sky.com dated 4 February 2015.
This ‘every second person’ was earlier one in three - and the authorities have warned that Britain would face a major crisis if it did not plan ahead. Of course, the charity has added that while the increase is largely attributed to people living longer, the number of people who are surviving the disease has never been higher.
The study was carried out by Professor Peter Sasieni, from Queen Mary University of London – in his words, ‘cancer is a disease of old age."
In the opinion of Cancer Research UK, there is no single solution for curing all types of cancer but, it needs a boost to public health and the NHS so that they can tackle looming demands for better diagnostics, treatments and earlier diagnosis. It has also indicated that the survival rate in Britain has doubled over the last 40 years and at a rough estimate, nearly half of the patients now survive the illness for more than 10 years.
Statistically speaking, the lifetime cancer risk for men and women in 1980 was 27.2%, it improved to 32.7% in 1990, ten years later in 2000, it was 37.1% and in 2010 it was 41.8%.