The number of people living with cancer in Lancashire and South Cumbria could fill Ewood Park stadium more than two times!
We serve a population of nearly 1.8 million people and of those, nearly 70,000 people are living with cancer in Lancashire and South Cumbria. 55% of those are female (37,371) and 45% of those are male (30,732).
(Statistics have been provided by the Cancerstats website.)
The number of people living with cancer in Lancashire and South Cumbria could fill Ewood Park stadium more than two times!
Prevalence by tumour site in females
Prevalence by tumour site in males
This means that:
Source: Cancerstats website
Source: Cancerstats website
The diagram below shows one-year survival by tumour type:
Colorectal (78%), Lung (35%), Breast (95%) and Prostate (96%)