Closing in on cancer
Science will win the technical battle against cancer. But that is only half the fight
THE numbers are stark. Cancer claimed the lives of 8.8m people in 2015; only heart disease caused more deaths. Around 40% of Americans will be told they have cancer during their lifetimes. It is now a bigger killer of Africans than malaria. But the statistics do not begin to capture the fear inspired by cancer’s silent and implacable cellular mutiny. Only Alzheimer’s exerts a similar grip on the imagination.
This article appeared in the Leaders section of the print edition under the headline “Closing in on cancer”
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