Cancer, statistically, is more likely to strike about half of the Britons in their lifetime.
According to the Mail Online's analysis of data from the Cancer Research UK, men are at slightly higher risk of getting cancer as compared to women.
As per the research, men have a 45% chance of getting cancer while women have a 43% chance of getting cancer in their entire life span.
If they contract the cancer, there is a 54.2% chance that male patients will die after a decade of the diagnosis, and women have a 46.3% chance of dying after ten years.
By cancer type, one in six British men (16.7%) has a chance of getting prostate cancer in their lifetime, and the same proportion of women (14.3%) may develop breast cancer.
Despite prostate and breast being the most common type of cancer, the risk of dying within ten years of diagnosis is relatively low.
Approximately one in six men (16.2%) with prostate cancer and one in four women (24.1%) with breast cancer will pass away within 10 years.
Moreover, Lung cancer is the deadliest and second most common type of cancer among both sexes.
It can strike 7.1% of men and 7.7% of women. Male patients have 96% of dying with a decade,while female patients have 93.5% risk.
The other two deadliest cancers among both genders, with risk of diagnosis even less than 2% are pancreatic (1.8 % men and 1.7% women), and brain cancer (1.3% men and 1.5% women).
The dying risk after a decade from pancreatic cancer is 98.9 % while with brain cancer it stands at 87.2% for men and 85.6% for women.
Younger patients have higher survival rates than the older ones.
