Cancer cases to double in next 15 years

CANCER cases will almost double over the next 15 years, a report warns.

Published by the National Cancer Registry it predicts that cancer numbers will have increased from 22,000 a year at present to up to 43,000 by 2020.

And the number of potentially fatal cancers will more than double — from 13,800 to 28,800 over the same period.