The total number of women dying of womb cancer has increased by 20 per cent in the last ten years. According to figures released by Cancer Research UK, since the start of the 21st century total yearly deaths from womb cancer has gone up by 400 - from 1,500 to a current level of 1,900. The rise in the number of deaths follows a significant increase in the number of women being diagnosed with this particular type of the disease Higher levels of obesity in recent years are thought to be a major reason for the increase in deaths with experts saying that obese women run twice the risk of developing the disease. Up to the year 2000 the percentage of women who developed womb cancer had remained roughly constant for a quarter of a century and death rates had been declining, according to Cancer Research UK. But since the late 1990s, the death rate has risen from 3.1 to 3.7 per 100,000 in the UK. However, because the total number of womb cancer diagnoses has increased, o...