Report
Our 2026 report Cancer in the UK: Age aims to support a more nuanced understanding of how cancer prevention, diagnosis, treatment and outcomes vary by age.
Find out more about Cancer in the UK: Age - July 2026
Report
This report summarises the current impact of cancer on people and health services in the UK today. It looks at where progress is being made and what challenges remain.
Find out more about Cancer in the UK: Overview - April 2026
Report
This report updates the 2020 report and highlights ongoing disparities between the most and least deprived groups.
Find out more about Cancer in the UK: socio-economic deprivation -February 2025
Report
This report estimates, based on recent trends, whether smokefree ambitions (≤5% smoking prevalence) are likely to be met, and when, by UK nation and deprivation group.
Read the report in full - January 2025
Report
This short report estimates the total number of cancer cases expected to be caused by smoking over the current parliamentary term (July 2024-July 2029) in the UK.
Find out more about projected cancer cases caused by tobacco - November 2024
Report
This report calculates the number and proportion of cancer cases caused by smoking in the UK in 2003, 2013 and 2023, looking at how this has changed over time.
Read the report in full(PDF, 499 KB) - October 2024
Peer review publication
This study aims to evaluate the reach and impact of a Cancer Research UK awareness raising campaign on the link between overweight and obesity and cancer risk.
Find out more about our obesity campaign evaluation - June 2023
Peer review publication
This study identifies common reasons behind adults’ perceptions of the relative harm of e-cigarettes and the effectiveness of e-cigarettes for smoking cessation.
Find out more about e-cigarette perceptions - February 2023
Peer review publication
This study calculates the proportion of cancer cases attributable to smoking by socio-economic deprivation in England and its impact on cancer incidence inequalities.
Find out more about smoking, deprivation and cancer incidence - September 2022
Report
This systematic review examines the impact of mass media campaigns on eight health behaviours linked to cancer risk, as well as their cost-effectiveness.
Find out more about the effectiveness of mass media - July 2022
Report
This report provides overweight and obesity prevalence projections for the UK up to 2040. Breakdowns are available by sex, deprivation quintile and individual nations.
Find out more about overweight and obesity prevalence projections - May 2022
Report
This report estimates how the proportion of UK cancer cases attributable to overweight and obesity varies by deprivation, and how this differs for males and females.
Find out more about cancers attributable to overweight and obesity by deprivation - October 2020
Peer review publication
This study evaluates the effectiveness of a pilot advertising campaign, on the relative harms of e-cigarettes compared with smoking, at promoting quit attempts.
Find out more about our e-cigarette pilot campaign evaluation - December 2019
Explore data for UK constituencies on our interactive hub. Find information on cancer cases, deaths, smoking, overweight and obesity, early diagnosis and waiting times.
Visit the archive to view earlier reports and supplementary analyses.
Prevention Policy Research to view our policy on different ways of preventing cancer.
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