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For journalists

Journalists, we want to make your lives easier.

We want to make it easy for you to do your work. Here you’ll find the key facts and statistics about sarcoma, including incidence rates, levels of national awareness in the UK and who the cancer affects. We also have a range of real life stories, people who are happy to talk to media about their experience of sarcoma cancer.

For press enquiries, please contact:

pressoffice@sarcoma.org.uk

I need to talk to someone right now

Mark Bhagwandin, Communications Manager.

📞 07973261747

Email: mark.bhagwandin@sarcoma.org.uk

 

Neil Wyatt, PR and Communications Officer.

📞 07394354821

Press enquiries: pressoffice@sarcoma.org.uk

 

Kerry Reeves-Kneip, Director of Communications and Fundraising.

📞 07739109287

Email: kerry.reeves-kneip@sarcoma.org.uk

 

I’m looking for key information about sarcoma

  • Sarcomas are uncommon cancers that can affect any part of the body, on the inside or outside, including the muscle, bone, tendons, blood vessels and fatty tissues.
  • 16 people are diagnosed with sarcoma every day in the UK. That’s about 5,900 people a year.
  • There are around 100 different sub-types of sarcoma.
  • Sarcoma UK is a national charity that funds vital research, offers support for anyone affected by sarcoma and campaigns for better treatments.

Facts and figures about sarcoma

  • Sarcoma is more common than previously thought.
  • There are three main types of sarcoma: soft tissue sarcoma, bone sarcoma and gastrointestinal stromal tumours (GIST).
  • About 700 cases of bone sarcoma are diagnosed every year in the UK.
  • About 5,200 people in the UK are diagnosed with soft tissue sarcomas each year.
  • The majority of people are diagnosed when their sarcoma is about the size of a large tin of baked beans (10cm).
  • Awareness of sarcoma is low. According to a YouGov poll conducted in April 2019, 75% of people in the UK do not know or are not sure what sarcoma is.

Survival Rates

  • Sarcoma survival rates have been very gradually increasing over the last two decades in the UK.
  • 81% of people diagnosed with sarcoma in the UK will live up to a year.
  • The five-year survival rate for sarcoma is 61%.

About Sarcoma UK

  • Sarcoma UK is a national charity that funds vital research, offers support for anyone affected by sarcoma and campaigns for better treatments.
  • The charity’s mission is to ensure everyone affected by sarcoma receives the best treatment, care, information and support available and to create the treatments of the future.
  • Over the last year, the Support Line had more than 5,000 contacts.
  • The charity is now one of the biggest funders of sarcoma research in the UK, having invested more than £8 million in 98 research projects to date.

Downing Street Partnership

  • Sarcoma UK was chosen as 10 Downing Street’s Charity of the Year (2016)  in memory of Chris Martin, Principal Private Secretary to the Prime Minister, who died of sarcoma in November 2015.

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