‘Young people don’t have to fear cancer death’

A world expert in cancer research is adamant that young people will not have to worry about dying from the disease when they are older.

Just over a year ago, Gerard Evan said he could confidently say his two children, aged 21 and 24, would never have to worry about dying from cancer in their lifetimes.

Asked yesterday had his view changed, the British professor of biochemistry at University of Cambridge said it had not.