White people at increased risk of developing most cancers

White people in England are more than twice as likely to get most types of cancer than people from Black, Asian or Mixed ethnic backgrounds, according to research by Cancer Research UK. These types of cancer include melanoma skin cancer, oesophageal, bladder and lung cancers, with heightened risk thought to be likely in part due to preventable risk factors such as smoking and obesity. The first study of its kind for a decade The research is based on three million cancer cases in England from 2013-17 €“ the largest analysis to consider the relationship between ethnicity and cancer incidence in