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Cancer Research UK epidemiologist Professor Peter Sasieni, said: "As people are living longer the numbers getting cancer have increased and the lifetime risk of developing bowel cancer has gone up.Lifetime risk is a complex issue but it allows us to estimate the sheer number of people who will develop cancer by predicting the chance of getting the disease between birth and death based on today's cancer incidence rates and death rates from cancer and other causes”.
Source-Medindia