The number of Americans told they have cancer has reached a record high of almost one in 10. A new Gallup poll has revealed that 9.7 percent of people have been told at some point in their lives by a nurse or doctor that they have it. It comes despite the number of cancer fatalities dropping. The two combine to form a sliver of optimism, with more people alive who have received diagnoses being driven by higher survival rates. Lung cancer has seen a decline as smoking rates drop, but cancers linked to obesity have increased, as have types of colorectal cancer among younger people. The number of people who had a diagnosis in 2007/8, when Gallup started gathering the data, was around seven percent and remained so until 2014/15. The rate of people who have received a diagnosis increases with o

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