Understanding the types of the disease and where they strike can help us see just how much diet, climate and lifestyle affect our health We think of cancer as one disease. In fact it is more than 100 different diseases, affecting all parts of the body with different causes and outcomes. The incidence varies widely across the world, influenced by diet, smoking and drinking, infection, climate and social factors. So what is this global pattern, and what light does it throw on the development of cancer? Breast cancer This is the commonest cancer in women in the developed world. Every year more than 44,000 women are diagnosed with this disease in the UK, more than 100 a day, and rates here have increased by 50 per cent over 20 years. Worldwide more than one million cases are diagnosed every year. The rise is thought to be driven...
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