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Cancer Research UK is the largest single funder of cancer research in the UK and the world's largest independent organisation dedicated to cancer research.
Breast cancer: the facts
- Breast cancer is now the most common cancer in the UK
- Each year more than 44,000 women are diagnosed with breast cancer, that’s more than 100 women a day
- Each year around 300 men are diagnosed with breast cancer
- Breast cancer rates have increased by more than 50% over the last twenty years
- More women are surviving breast cancer than ever before
- Breast cancer survival rates have been improving for more than twenty years
- In the 1970s only around 5 out of 10 breast cancer patients survived beyond five years. Now it's 8 out of 10.
Facts about testicular cancer
- Nearly 2,000 men are diagnosed with testicular cancer in the UK each year.
- Testicular cancer is not that common. Only 1 to 2 of every 100 cancers diagnosed in men are testicular cancers. But it is the commonest cancer affecting young men between 20 and 39 years old.
- Almost half of all testicular cancers occur in men under 35 years old, while only about 1 in 7 (14%) are diagnosed in men over 50 years.
- Treatment for testicular cancer works very well and the vast majority of men are cured.
Almost everyone living and working in Devon will be touched at some point by the Devon Air Ambulance Trust. You may know someone who has been airlifted to hospital – a relative, a friend, a farmer, a motorist, a horse rider, a cyclist.
Accidents happen all the time, often in remote places, hard to access. This is why Devon needs an Air Ambulance Service. Did you know that 18% of all Devon Air Ambulance call-outs are horse-related? Or that it costs £2.2 million each year to keep the two helicopters in the air? No funding is received from local or central government or the National Lottery; every single penny is raised by Devon businesses and the local community.
