Deaths due to cancer among men were 32%, and 29% were from heart disease. While in women, 28% deaths were from heart disease and 27% due to cancer.

In 2012, the researchers reported that the proportion of deaths from cancer was 29% and cardiovascular disease related-deaths was 28%. England had the lowest rate of heart conditions and Scotland had the highest.
Dr Adam Timmis, of the NIHR Cardiovascular Biomedical Research Unit at Barts Health, London, said, “If the national effort put into the detection of breast cancer could be matched in protecting young women against myocardial infarction (heart attacks) many more lives would probably be saved.”
He added that the drop in cardiovascular-disease death rates as among the greatest public health triumphs in the past 50 years.
Source-Medindia