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Prostate cancer risk has risen to such a degree that one in every seven boys will develop it, projections suggest.
Experts say the trebling of lifetime risk - up from one in 20 in 1990 - is partly because doctors are spotting more cases and partly because men are living longer meaning more develop it.
Cancer Research UK, which compiled the data and made estimates for boys born in 2015, says although the cancer rates are rising, deaths are going down.
They have dropped by 20% in 20 years.
In 1990, prostate cancer killed about 29 men in every 100,000.
Today it claims about 10,000 lives in the UK each year - just under 24 men in every 100,000.
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/health-21144676
Experts say the trebling of lifetime risk - up from one in 20 in 1990 - is partly because doctors are spotting more cases and partly because men are living longer meaning more develop it.
Cancer Research UK, which compiled the data and made estimates for boys born in 2015, says although the cancer rates are rising, deaths are going down.
They have dropped by 20% in 20 years.
In 1990, prostate cancer killed about 29 men in every 100,000.
Today it claims about 10,000 lives in the UK each year - just under 24 men in every 100,000.
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/health-21144676