All available data shows that, despite a better understanding of the biology of tumour cells, the treatment of most cancers has not significantly changed for the past three decades. For the main types of cancer, survival rates for people diagnosed when their tumours were in an advanced stage has changed very little in the last 20 years. In contrast, survival is relatively good with early diagnosis.
Here, Dr Isidro Sánchez-García, working in the Institute of Molecular and Cell Biology of Cancer at the CSIC/University of Salamanca, Spain outlines research in this area…