Cancer: Ageing Population Blamed For Increase
The number of people diagnosed with cancer increases 50,000 per year, but greater awareness means the disease is detected earlier.

You made me sick.You took my mom.
Cancer.
Hard to think.
Are you scared?
Factual one in eight women will get breast cancer. And motive. These are just some of the many cancer campaigns. Increasing awareness of the disease is helping at a time when the number of those diagnosed is at its highest ever. Last July, 15-year-old Edward Scott sought urgent advice after he realized something was wrong.
I went to the NHS website. And I found all of the symptoms that were to the what they said cancer were symptoms I had. So the same day I went to my mom and said: mom, there's something really wrong, I have to go get it sorted out. So I went to the GP and on the same day, I found out I just got cancer.
Accessible information, advanced technology and scientific research means cancer is being detected earlier. And those it flecks are living longer. In the 1970s, 23% of patients survived for 10 years. By 2007, that figure doubled. At the latest, it suggests that more than 330,000 people were diagnosed with same form of the disease in 2011. That's an increase of almost 50,000 over a decade.
The main reason that more and more people are developing cancer every year is because we have aging population and because people's risk of cancer goes up very significantly as people gets older. The more old people we have in our population, the more people will develop cancer.
The risk factors include obesity, smoking and alcohol. For now, a cure remains elusive. Doctors insist that a healthy living remains the biggest prevention against cancer.
Hinta Sun, Sky news.