Otherwise, when you hear a statistic such as the fact that cancer rates have been steadily increasing, you could assume that people are living less healthy lives. The opposite is true: longevity is increasing, which means more people are living long enough to get cancer. For most cancers, age is the biggest risk factor and, in the UK, 60 per cent of all cancer diagnoses are for people aged sixty-five or older. As much as it pains me to say it, when it comes to statistics, the numbers are not everything.
