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15 December 2023
Cancer
Around one in fifty (1.8% or 456,200) people had cancer in 2022
One in three (34.9%) people with cancer had skin cancer, the most reported type of cancer
Males were slightly more likely to have cancer than females (2.1% compared to 1.6%)
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2022
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