A golden age of cancer treatment? – podcast

The Guardian’s health editor Andrew Gregory explores the promises and challenges of revolutionary technology in the fight against cancer

Decades ago, the treatment options for cancer patients could be summed up in three words: cut, burn, poison.

As the Guardian’s health editor, Andrew Gregory, explains, it was a shorthand for the limited choices open to oncologists and their patients – surgery, radiation therapy and chemotherapy – at a time when a cancer diagnosis was often understood to be a death sentence.

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