Cancer is number one killer of adults in Britain as number of heart disease deaths fall

CANCER is now the No1 killer of adults after a fall in the number of deaths from heart disease, a study found.

Scientists said around 10,000 more men and 3,000 more women died from cancer than cardiovascular disease in 2014.

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Lifestyle changes such as reducing boozing and eating healthier plus better, quicker treatment are thought to explain why.

In the latest figures, 78,000 men and 76,000 women died of heart disease compared to 88,000 and 79,000 from cancer.

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Dr Nick Townsend, of the British Heart Foundation Centre at the University of Oxford, said: “There has been a massive drop in cardiovascular disease as opposed to a steadier decline in cancer. Fewer people are having a heart attack.”

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Dr Townsend warned rising diabetes and obesity cases threaten to reverse this trend.

Cancer rates are rising as people live longer. In 1961, more than half of deaths were from heart disease.