Two million years of life lost each year to cancer

Cancer Research UK is calling on the government to drive progress in the prevention, diagnosis and treatment of cancer after a new study found over two million years of life are lost to cancer in the UK every year. The study, published in the British Journal of Cancer, used the age at which cancer patients died from their disease and average life expectancy for the general population to estimate how many years were lost to cancer. Researchers from Cancer Research UK and King’s College London found that around a fifth of the total lost years, more than 500,000 per year,