NEW DAWN IN CANCER WAR… Cure in 10 years?

New dawn in cancer war: Scientists to develop revolutionary drugs to stop tumours resisting treatment under £75m programme that will be the ‘best chance yet’ of beating the disease

• Medics are developing new ways to tackle cancer to avoid chemotherapy
• Existing treatments have cruel side effects which impair a patient’s life 
• A new generation of cancer drugs could be available on the NHS within 10 years 
• Not all cancer will be cured by patients could see their lives extended  

A treatment revolution that could reduce cancer from a killer disease to a chronic condition is announced by British scientists today.

They will develop new drugs under a £75million programme that is the ‘best chance yet’ of beating the illness.

Instead of ‘shock and awe’ chemotherapy, with its cruel side effects, they will target ways of stopping cancer cells resisting treatment. In combination with existing medication, tumours will either be beaten completely or their growth limited to allow patients to live much longer.