Scientists aim to double cancer survival within a decade

Scientists say the coming decade will see a number of medical breakthroughs that will increase the body's ability to fight cancer itself and limit the ways healthy cells are tricked into helping cancer survive. — dpa

Scientists believe they could double the survival of people with advanced cancer within a decade.

World-leading experts from the Institute of Cancer Research (ICR), London, and the United Kingdom's Royal Marsden NHS Foundation Trust, said cutting-edge research will mean more people get cured, while others live far longer.