German scientist Otto Heinrich Warburg received Nobel Prize for find the root cause of cancer back in 1931. Very few people around the world know about it, because the truth is hidden by the pharmaceutical and food industries. The main cause of cancer has been detected decades ago (1923). Professor Sikora suggested this medical revolution would happened “in the next five to 10 years”. If they live another 20 or 30 years, they would effectively live a normal lifespan.” “Most patients with cancer tend to be in their 50s or 60s. “What it would do is suppress the cancer and convert cancer into a long-term chronic disease,” Professor Sikora said. He said the tumours in 100 women with breast cancer would all be unique to each individual but “understanding the molecular cogs that make cancer cells different to normal cells and therefore developing drugs personalised to the cancer” would allow “personalised, precision medicine”. Speaking to The Independent ahead of World Cancer Day on 4 February, Professor Karol Sikora, former head of the World Health Organisation’s cancer programme, said advances in genetics meant doctors would soon be able to prescribe drugs specifically targeted at each individual’s cancer. Survival rates have dramatically increased over the last five decades from an average of 24 per cent the early 1970s to about 50 per cent.īut some forms of the disease have remained extremely hard to treat – just one per cent of pancreatic cancer patients and five per cent of those with lung cancer are still alive 10 years after diagnosis. An effective cure for all types of cancer could be just five to 10 years away, according to one of the world’s leading experts on the disease.