Summary
Cancer affects everyone, but the burden of cancer isn’t distributed evenly across the population, with health inequalities causing unfair differences in cancer outcomes. This new report from Cancer UK shows that cancer death rates are nearly 60% higher for people living in the most deprived areas of the UK compared with the least deprived, with around 28,400 cancer deaths each year linked to socioeconomic inequality. This equates to around 78 deaths each day – more than 3 in 20 of all deaths from cancer.
Cancer in the UK 2025: Socioeconomic deprivation (Cancer UK, 21 February 2025)
https://www.cancerresearchuk.org/sites/default/files/cancer_in_the_uk_2025_socioeconomic_deprivation.pdf
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