Cancer now robs Brits of 14 years of life, according to an analysis branded a ‘wake up call’.
For comparison, this is one extra year than for patients diagnosed in the 1980s. And experts predict it could get even worse.
One leading oncologist said, on the back of the new survival data, it was time ‘to put cancer right back at the top’ of the Government’s agenda. Another demanded it was treated ‘with the same gusto’ as the historic Covid
Breast cancer is one of the most common cancers in the world. Each year in the UK there are more than 55,000 new cases, and the disease claims the lives of 11,500 women. In the US, it strikes 266,000 each year and kills 40,000. But what causes it and how can it be treated?
What is breast cancer?
It comes from a cancerous cell which develops in the lining of a duct or lobule in one of the breasts.
When
Within every cancer are molecules that spur deadly, uncontrollable growth. What if scientists could hook those molecules to others that make cells self-destruct? Could the very drivers of a cancer’s survival instead activate the program for its destruction?
That idea came as an epiphany to Dr. Gerald Crabtree, a developmental biologist at Stanford, some years ago during a walk through the redwoods near his home in the Santa Cruz mountains.
“I ran home,” he said, excited by the idea and
A deadly cancer that grows silently for years is striking down more young people than ever before — and tearing apart families in the process.
While cancers have steadily fallen over recent decades, scientists have been mystified by an explosion of colon cancer cases in younger adults who have traditionally been at low risk of the disease.
Evan White, 24, from Dallas, had just graduated from the University of Arkansas with a degree in finance when he was diagnosed with
