• Question: What is the most common type of cancer?

    Asked by elsieexo to Carolyn, Peter, Richard, Sara, Siana on 18 Nov 2015.
    • Photo: Richard Unwin

      Richard Unwin answered on 18 Nov 2015:

      Breast, lung, prostate and bowel cancer are the most common cancers in the UK, and make up over half of all cases. Of these Breast cancer is the most common, despite the fact that its very rare in men….

    • Photo: Carolyn Nielsen

      Carolyn Nielsen answered on 18 Nov 2015:

      This also depends on what population of people you are looking at and if they have a lot of exposure to certain risk factors (like smoking) that can increase the risk of specific kinds of cancer.

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