Emergence of cancer cures - Conquering killer disease

ARE we on the cusp of conquering cancer? If so, it would be the greatest medical breakthrough of the past 100 years.

Cancer has claimed more lives than all the world’s wars put together. Every day hundreds of thousands of people are lost to cancer, bringing untold misery to the families of those who succumb to this dreaded disease.

But in the past two days alone new approaches both to the detection and to the treatment of a variety of cancers have been unveiled by separate research teams in Italy and the United States.