Male bowel cancer on the increase, says Cancer Research UK

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http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/health-21998588


Bowel cancer is the second most common cause of cancer death in the UK after lung cancer

Bowel cancer rates among men have increased by more than a quarter in the last 35 years, a report has suggested.

The Cancer Research UK study said this contrasted with a rise of just 6% in the rate for women over the same time.

However, bowel cancer survival rates are improving with half of all patients living for at least 10 years after being diagnosed.

It is not known why there should be such a large difference in the increase in rates between men and women.

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1. Is there a sister study that examines the diet of most Britains who are liver cancer patients?

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2. Liver cancer isn't common in Britain..

The lifetime risk of getting primary liver cancer in the UK is about 1 in 200, as compared with over 1 in 20 for bowel cancer (in both cases, males are at greater risk than females).

Liver cancer is much commoner in some other parts of the world, so there have been studies of the environmental and lifestyle risk factors. These include eating food contaminated with aflatoxin - a mould which is common in Africa and Asia; excessive use of alcohol; and infection with hepatitis B or C.