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A MASSIVE four in ten people will get cancer at some point in their lives, a health charity warned today.

Diagnoses of the disease are increasing at such a rate that 42 per cent of people currently develop the illness.

And more than two thirds of those 64 per cent will die as a result, Macmillan Cancer Support said.

Over the last decade the number of sufferers has shot up by 35 per cent from 1.5million in 1998 to 2million in 2008.

That is expected to double again over the next 20 years.

Macmillan chief executive Ciarn Devane said: "It is really alarming that the number of people who will get cancer is now well past one in three, and that there are so many more people with cancer today than even ten years ago.

"The NHS really needs to recognise cancer's long term impact on people's lives, to plan better services and to develop more personalised care."

In January Health Secretary Andrew Lansley announced a 750million cancer strategy for Britain designed to drive up survival rates.