Cancer cures shift out of lab

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Karol Sikora, ICRF's deputy director of clinical research, said that scientists have discovered a lot about how genes control cancers. They have identified genes that mend 바카라사이트 damage sunshine and cigarette smoke cause to healthy cells, and found genes that suppress tumours.

Jack Cuzick, statistician at ICRF, said that breast cancer deaths could be cut by a quarter through preventive drugs, if current trials are successful. These trials will take a decade to complete.

Bowel cancer deaths could be cut by 40 per cent through sophisticated screening. The charity is running a pilot trial with St Mark's Hospital in London.