'Holy grail' of cancer cure hides progress made, says charity

ICR says ‘cure or nothing’ approach not helpful to understanding how best to tackle disease in future

The obsession with a cure for cancer as the “holy grail” of research on the disease means the public is unaware of how much progress has been made in allowing sufferers to live longer, a charity has found.

The Institute of Cancer Research (ICR) said the effect risked creating an overly binary “cure or nothing” approach to cancer that could be unhelpful, not only in masking progress, but to understanding how best to tackle the disease in future.

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