DEPARTMENT OF PUBLIC HEALTH

Researchers shed light on increased risk of second cancers among breast cancer survivors

​Breast cancer is the most commonly diagnosed cancer in the UK. Around 56,000 people in the UK are diagnosed each year, the vast majority (over 99 per cent) of whom are women. Improvements in earlier diagnosis and in treatments mean that five year survival rates have been increasing over time, reaching 87 per cent by 2017 in England.