“Cancer death rates in the UK have fallen to a historic new low, Cancer Research UK has announced.

The charity, which analysed figures, said death rates had fallen by 11% in the past decade.

It added that 247 in every 100,000 people in the UK are thought to die from cancer in any given year.

That is a 29% drop on the peak in 1989, which was 355 per 100,000, it said.

The data also showed ovarian cancer rates had fallen by 19% in the past decade, from 2012-2014 to 2022-2024, with stomach cancer dropping by 34% and lung cancer by 22%.

Bowel cancer has fallen by 6%, breast cancer by 14%, cervical cancer by 11%, leukaemia by 9% and oesophageal cancer by 12%.

But some cancer death rates have increased, with gallbladder cancer up by 29%, eye cancer by 26%, liver cancer by 14% and kidney cancer by 5%.

Others, including thyroid cancer, pancreatic cancer and melanoma, have remained stable.”

From Sky News.