The UK’s largest ever research programme could be a “game changer” for cancer survival, an expert claims. The project, called Our Future Health, is now the biggest study of its kind in the world with blood samples, and more than a million people from across the UK have enrolled.
It aims to transform the prevention, detection and treatment of conditions like dementia, cancer, diabetes, heart disease and stroke.
Some five million people will eventually be enrolled in the programmes, and the goal is to create one of the most detailed pictures ever of people’s health.
Professor Michael Cook, executive director of science, Our Future Health, said: “Today, the UK really lags far behind many EU countries and countries around the world in terms of five-year cancer survival rates.
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