Closing in on cancer

摘要

THE numbers are stark. Cancer claimed the lives of 8.8m people in 2015; only heart disease caused more deaths. Around 40% of Americans will be told they have cancer during their lifetimes. It is now a bigger . killer of Africans than malaria. But the statistics do not begin to capture the fear inspired by cancer's silent and implacable cellular mutiny. Only Alzheimer's exerts a similar grip on the imagination.