I am backing the Cancer Research UK’s ‘Cross Cancer Out’ campaign.

It is aiming to increase cancer survival rates from 50% to 75%. They’ve helped make the huge strides rising survival rates from 25% to 50% but that still means 159,000 people dies every year from cancer. That is too many people. Any death is terrible. ButCancer Research UK plans are realistic.

They will keep spending money researching about 200 cancers. Campaign for smoking prevalence amongst adults to drop from 20% to 15% (each 1% drop represents 3,000 not dying from cancer each year).

But to make this work the government needs to keep funding the basic research infrastructure and ensuring public confidence in health data being available to researchers.

I support this do you?

P.S. If you smoke what would it take for you to stop?