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CANCER OF UNKNOWN PRIMARY FOUNDATION

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Awareness week starts tomorrow – 24 Sep 2017

September 23, 2017

Our 10th anniversary Awareness Week campaign is ’10 x more‘.

Please support us by making 10 times more people aware of the disease.

# CUP is the 5th commonest cause of cancer death in the UK (after lung, bowel, breast, prostate)

# 24 new cases of CUP are diagnosed every day in the UK (Ratio of 1 male to 1.2 females). 1 in 64 people will be diagnosed with CUP during their lifetime

# CUP is difficult to diagnose and treat. 57% of patients diagnosed with CUP in the UK present as an emergency.

 

If you want to read an in-depth look at the position facing CUP patients ‘yesterday, today and tomorrow’ which was prepared for our 10th anniversary please click here: is the unknown nearly known?

 



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