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Why your risk of cancer changes as you age – and what to look out for at 40, 50, 60 and beyond

By David Cox
Daily Telegraph UK·
8 mins to read
Why your risk of cancer changes as you age – and what to look out for at 40, 50, 60 and beyond
While cancer diagnoses in general become more common with age, this is not true for every form of the disease. Image / National Cancer Institute

A cancer diagnosis is perhaps one of the most challenging events that can occur within your lifetime, but the varying forms of the disease that might strike depend very much on your age.

Research from Cancer Research UK shows that a third of all cancers are diagnosed in the over-75s,

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