Annual statistics show that in total there were 373,574 new cancer diagnoses on the NHS in 2024 – an increase of almost 12,000 – excluding the most common types of skin cancer. This means more than 1,000 people in England will be diagnosed with cancer every day in 2024.
Including common skin cancers, 616,404 cancers were diagnosed in 2024.
The six most commonly diagnosed cancer groups that year were skin, prostate, breast, lung, bowel and blood. Excluding common skin cancers, half of all recorded diagnoses still involved four main groups: prostate, breast, lung and bowel.
The Telegraph is campaigning for the rollout of targeted prostate cancer screening to men at increased risk of the disease, such as black men and those with a family history of the disease.
Earlier this week it was revealed that more than 20,000 NHS patients will be invited to trial blood tests that can detect signs of multiple cancers from a single sample.
The tests are designed to detect signs of cancers, including bowel, pancreatic, ovarian, stomach, liver, kidney, bladder and prostate cancer.
Some work by identifying tiny fragments of DNA shed into the bloodstream by tumors. Others measure proteins in the blood or use AI to analyze the results.
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