Primarily due to better treatment options, there are now over two and a half million people living with cancer in the United Kingdom and it is predicted that in the next fourteen years this number will increase to four million. This means that the numbers of people living with cancer in the UK has increased by approximately half a million in the last five years (Maddams et al, 2012). When all cancers are grouped  together, someone diagnosed with cancer today has double the chance of being alive in ten years time compared to someone diagnosed with cancer during the 1970s (Quaresma et al, 2014). This paper will now take three of the four most common cancers in the UK and look at them individually, i.e. breast, prostate, and colorectal cancer.