by People who die early on cancer costs the British economy £ 10.3 billion per year, more than any other health state, as a study showed.
These are the total cost of the 350,000 years of lost productivity that have been recorded every year throughout the UK, because adults have died prematurely from the disease, according to Cancer Research UK (Cruk).
Each early death costs the economy an average of 61,000 GBP, according to the first examination of the charity, in which the country loses the country due to the growing tribute of cancer diagnoses and deaths.
In 2021, cancer caused the loss of more productive years of life than any other illness – 350,000 years. Heart problems led to 257,000 years of lost productivity this year, while diseases of the digestive system caused 123,000 lost years and respiratory conditions for 85,000 years.
Michelle Mitchell, Chief Executive by Cruk, said: “Cancer has an immeasurable influence on the patients and their relatives. However, this report shows that there are also considerable economic costs. Behind the figures in this report are real human friends, family members and employee-new life through cancer.
The findings come when the ministers struggle with how a record of 2.8 million people in Great Britain is too sick to work in a sluggish economy.
The charity organization reached its conclusions by subtracting the age of the person expected. Then they calculated the economic value of the life years lost to cancer by appreciating the total contracts of this person and measured how much of it was lost.
Deaths caused by lung cancer cost Britain more than any other form of disease – £ 1.7 billion. Those of colon cancer cost £ 1.2 billion, while breast cancer deaths cost 800 million GBP.
These are the three types of cancer, which in the youngest age cause the largest number of deaths from the disease, which leads to the most productive years of life. They also cause more deaths in men than women who, because men earn more than women on average, to a greater financial loss.
Cancer deaths in humans under the age of 50 lead to an annual loss of 119,000 years of productive life and a loss of 3.2 billion GBP for the economy. These 119,000 lost years were 5,900 people aged 15 to 49 in 2021.
Among the 50- to 64-year-olds, the toll is even higher-167,000 years a year and costs 5.1 billion GBP.
David Finch, the deputy director of the Health Lives team at The Health Foundation Thinketank, said: “The results of Cruk are reminiscent of the sobering memory of the increasing increasing costs for sick health and disability in the population of an employable age, which is becoming more and more obvious.
“This problem does not disappear with a projected increase in the proportion of employees of working age with diagnosed serious illnesses by 2040.”
In more people, cancer is diagnosed and die than ever before, especially because of the aging population and the effects of obesity.
Between 1975 and 1977 there were 140,000 deaths a year. The number rose to 176,000 per year in 2023-25. Cruk says that current trends will increase to 208,000 deaths per year by 2038-40.
According to Finch, planned reductions in performance would hinder the government’s endeavors to make more people good enough to work again. “The government’s approach to combating this adaptation is too short -term. The planned cuts for disability advantages that are likely to worsen people and reduce their employment opportunities.”
A spokesman for the Ministry of Health and Social Affairs said his 10-year health plan, which will be published next week, “will find out how we will use the latest technologies and techniques to improve the cancer results and to change the care in order to give hope more in the face of this devastating illness”.
“This includes the introduction of DIY -SCREENING kits in cervical cancer, more radiation therapy machines in every region and the opening of more diagnostic community centers that are closer to the place where people live,” they said. “We also make progress in combating some of the largest causes of cancer, including our pioneering tobacco and vapes law to create the first smoke-free generation and the restriction of junk food advertising to combat obesity.”
