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While these symptoms may indicate cancer, they may have other causes. Over 100 types of cancers affect humans. Tobacco use is the cause of about 22% of cancer deaths. Another 10% is due to obesity, poor diet, lack of physical activity, and excessive drinking of alcohol. Other factors include certain infections, exposure to ionizing radiation and environmental pollutants.
Almost half of all cancer deaths are lung, bowel, breast or prostate cancer, 2014, UK. Cancer causes more than one in four of all deaths, 2011, UK. 1  There were around 163,000 cancer deaths in the UK in 2014, thatâs 450 deaths every day.  In males, there were around 86,500 cancer deaths in the UK in 2014.