What is your risk of cancer? Figures show that 40 percent of Americans will develop a disease in their lifetime – following Princess Kate’s shock diagnosis. These tables reveal men’s and women’s risk of each type of tumor

The shock announcement that the Princess of Wales is battling cancer comes amid rising cancer rates in the US – especially among younger adults.

Data shows that nearly 40 percent of Americans will develop the disease during their lifetime – while one in five people diagnosed will die from the disease.

Men were at highest risk overall, with 41.9 percent of people said they were diagnosed with cancer before dying – with lung, bowel, breast and prostate cancers being the most common.

Kate Middleton, 42, announced her diagnosis on Friday, saying she was receiving preventative chemotherapy.

The estimates of lifetime cancer risk – or the risk of suffering from cancer before death – were calculated by the American Cancer Society, which analyzed data on millions of cases reported to the US National Registry.

To estimate the risk of cancer over a person’s lifetime, the team analyzed national rates of each type of disease between 2017 and 2019.

The ACS noted online that the estimates would vary from person to person depending on their risk factors.

This could include whether they are obese, have a family history of cancer, or how often someone exercises.

Overall, the results suggested that men are the most likely to develop prostate cancer: 12.9 percent.

Lung cancer came in second, with an estimated 6.3 percent of people suffering from the disease, and colon cancer came in third, with 4.3 percent.

For women, breast cancer was the cancer they were most at risk for; it is estimated that 13 percent of women were diagnosed with the disease before death.

As in men, lung cancer was also the second most common (5.9 percent) and colon cancer the third most common (3.9 percent).

In both groups, Hodgkin’s lymphoma – cancer of the lymphatic system – was the least common: 0.2 percent of both sexes suffered from it.

The analysis – based on data from the National Cancer Institute – did not break down the risk of cancer diagnosis by age.

But separate data shows that people aged 65 to 74 are at greatest risk; almost 30 percent of cancer cases are diagnosed in this age group.

They are followed by 55 to 64 year olds, who represent 24.1 percent of cases.

At the other end of the scale, people under the age of 20 and those between 20 and 34 were at the least risk, accounting for 2.7 percent of cases.

But this trend is rapidly changing as young people face a mysterious epidemic of stomach and colon cancer.