Cancer: The Facts
One person in three will develop cancer during their life. It can strike at any time, but cancer tends to affect older people more.Excluding certain skin cancers, there were more than 270,000 new cases of the disease in 2001 - and the rate is increasing by about 1 percent per year.
Some cancers, such as breast, are becoming more common, while new cases of lung cancer fall away due to the drop in the number of smokers; expecially mature smokers
However, while the overall number of new cancer cases is not falling, the good news is that successful treatment rates for many of the most common types are improving rapidly.
BBC News Online has produced, in conjunction with Cancer Research UK, a guide to some of the most common forms of cancer and the treatments used to tackle them.
According to the BBC Health News website.