Cancer Research UK on The Rest Is Science

This episode is brought to you by Cancer Research UK. In The UK, nearly one in two people will face cancer in their lifetime. Wow. The question is, could science stop cancer before it begins? In over the past fifty years, Cancer Research UK has helped double cancer survival in The UK. And that's proof of what research can achieve, like take cervical cancer. Almost every case is caused by HPV, the human papillomavirus. And when scientists uncovered that link, prevention became possible. Indeed it did by vaccine. And it's protection that works way before the cancer itself can actually grow. After the vaccine was introduced, cervical cancer rates in England were nearly ninety percent lower than expected in women in their twenties.