MORE people in Wales are being diagnosed with cancer but the number of people living longer is on the up, a new report has found.

A new report from Public Health Wales has been published in time for World Cancer Day today, Thursday, February 4.

It found cases of cancer, Wales' biggest killer, have increased by 14 per cent over the last 10 years. More than 19,000 people were diagnosed with cancer in 2014.

The biggest increase was in 65 to 69-year-olds and mainly in women.

Some of the increase is partly due to preventable cancers - which cause four in 10 of all cancers - caused by factors like smoking, having a poor diet, drinking alcohol, being overweight or obese and too much sun and UV light.

But the report, carried out by the Welsh Cancer Intelligence and Surveillance Unit, found more people are living longer and develop cancer in old age.

Breast, prostate, lung and bowel cancers remain the most common cancers, but the melanoma incidence rate increased by over three quarters for men and by over a third for women, whilst liver cancer rates increased by 65 per cent in men and by 42 per cent in women.

Lung cancer numbers increased by an average of 243 extra cases per year in women compared to 10 years before - but numbers stayed nearly the same for men.

Welsh women have one of the highest lung cancer incidence rates in Europe.