Figure 2

Funding and years of life lost (YLL) changes over time in the United Kingdom. Presents a comparison of the percentage differences in research funding (Y-axis) and YLL (X-axis) for the United Kingdom between this study and the values reported for 2002 [3]. Data points to the right of the vertical axis indicate cancers increasing in relative societal burden (and vice versa) while data points above the horizontal axis represent cancers receiving increased funding (and vice versa). Combinations of symbol shape and colour/shading indicate cancer types with concordant or discordant changes in funding and YLL. These values are relative YLL and funding so any increases in the relative YLL for a specific cancer type would not mean increases in absolute YLL, rather that the relative severity is increasing, most likely due to better improvements for other types of cancer. Not all 26 cancer types are represented due to less comprehensive data for the older United Kingdom data set.