Expert Predicts Cancer Breakthrough

Cancer will no longer be a major cause of death in the future, according to the UK's leading expert on the disease Sir David Lane.
Dr Lane, who is chief scientist at Cancer Research UK, believes treatments for the deadly disease will advance dramatically in the coming years with a new generation of drugs being created, reports the Daily Telegraph.
He is expected to tell the National Cancer Research Institute (NCRI) annual conference that the next few years are going to be "very exciting".
"There are new drugs coming through that look very promising," he said. "Discoveries that were made 25 years ago are now having their impact in the clinic."
Dr Lane added that while it would be wrong to raise patients' hopes in the short term, this work will turn into something "immensely useful" in the next ten to 20 years.
"I think that cancer will become a disease that is not a major cause of death," he concluded.
The NCRI was set up in 2001 to develop common plans for cancer research and to avoid unnecessary duplication of effort and it is a partnership between government, charity and industry