One in two people diagnosed with cancer today in the UK will survive the disease for 10 years or more – up from just one in four in the early 1970s, according to a study published last year. This dramatic progress has been driven by advances in cancer prevention, diagnosis and treatment – much of it backed by Cancer Research UK.
As the world’s largest charitable funder of cancer research, Cancer Research UK has made major contributions to improved cancer survival by backing scientists who have delivered significant advances from our understanding to treatment of the disease.
