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Friends Life has raised £140,000 for the Lister Macmillan Cancer Centre which will go towards initiatives including a welfare benefits advice service.

Aviva has released previously unseen figures from its critical illness (CI), income protection (IP) and private medical insurance (PMI) claims statistics.

Friends Life is highlighting the importance of joining in with the conversation on cancer.

Macmillan Cancer Support has called for the NHS to shift towards proper aftercare in the light of figures which show the number of people being diagnosed with cancer in the UK every year has risen to 330,0001.

The number of people being diagnosed with cancer in the UK each year has hit more than 330,000 for the first time, according to the latest figures.

The death rate from cancer has dropped by more than a fifth since the 1990s according to analysis from Cancer Research UK.

There are almost 10,000 children in the UK currently living with a cancer diagnosis, according to new research.

Unum has launched an online employer toolkit to help support employers dealing with cancer in the workplace.

Deaths from breast, prostate and colorectal cancer will decrease by 44% between 1992 and 2020, whilst deaths from lung cancer will decrease by only 16%, according to projections by Macmillan Cancer Support.

Almost a third of people who have been treated for cancer say they felt pressure to ‘bounce back to normal' more quickly than they would have liked, Bupa has said.