Cancer deaths under 80 ‘will be eradicated’

Death rates from cancer have fallen by 20 per cent in the past two decades
Death rates from cancer have fallen by 20 per cent in the past two decades
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Dying of cancer could be confined to the very old within decades, experts have predicted.

A daily aspirin for the middle-aged, cancer testing by pharmacists and improvements in screening and drugs will help to eliminate cancer deaths in people under 80, according to a report published today.

Improvements in cancer care will mean “bringing under control something we’ve been consciously fighting for 3,000 years”, said David Taylor, emeritus professor of pharmaceutical and public health policy at University College London. “If we put all these things together . . . these killers of children and working-age adults can be overcome.”

Slightly more than half the 150,000 people who die of cancer in Britain each year are aged above 75, and the risk of the illness increases