The landscape of cancer treatment has changed significantly since Dr Ned Sharpless, former Director of the National Cancer Institute, completed his world-beating oncology training 20 years ago.
Astonishing medical advancements mean you’re a third less likely to die from the disease than you were 30 years a go. Since 1990, 3.8 million cancer deaths have been averted.
Many forms of cancers – such as lung, skin and breast – that used to be death sentences are now treatable.
Even those
The proportion of Covid patients needing to be hooked up to ventilators in London has halved since Omicron took off, according to official figures.
NHS England statistics show 16 per cent of hospitalised patients required mechanical ventilation in late November when the Delta variant was still dominant. But a month later, after it was replaced by Omicron, this had dropped to six per cent.
Experts today heralded the data as yet more evidence that the extremely-infectious variant sparks milder disease
