- 280,000 people each year in the UK suffer a heart attack, or put another way, someone has a heart attack every two minutes.*
- On average, 28,000 people each year undergo coronary artery bypass surgery because of coronary heart disease.*
- 100,000 people each year suffer a stroke – 10,000 of these are under retirement age.†
- There are 44,000 new cases of breast cancer each year. One in nine women will develop breast cancer at some time during their lifetime.††
- Nearly 35,000 men are diagnosed with prostate cancer in the UK each year.#
* Health Insurance guide website, September 2007
† Different strokes website, September 2007
†† Cancer Research UK website, September 2007
#Cancer Help UK, February 2008