Tackling the quacks

September 22, 2008

Cancer can kill. It claims more than 150,000 lives every year in the UK alone. Thanks to research, improved detection and better treatments mean that survival rates are climbing year on year.

But while scientists make progress in understanding the causes of cancer at a molecular level, and trying to find new ways to beat it, the unscrupulous are preying on vulnerable, and often desperate, people.
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