Cancer Statistics for the UK
Cases

New cases of cancer, 2015, UK
Deaths

Deaths from cancer, 2016, UK
Survival

Survive cancer for 10 or more years, 2010-11, England and Wales
Preventable cases

Cancer cases are preventable, UK, 2015
About this data
The latest data available for most cancers in the UK are: incidence 2015, mortality 2016 and survival 2010-11. Source years are specified in each section, for these and all other datasets.
Coding and counting information is available with the in-depth content by cancer type.
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Acknowledgements
We are grateful to the many organisations across the UK which collect, analyse, and share the data which we use, and to the patients and public who consent for their data to be used. Find out more about the sources which are essential for our statistics.