Humanity's greatest victory

Scientists in England's National Health Service (NHS) are conducting an ongoing experiment to find the cure and early stages of cancer, which they project will be ready for citizens in 2027. The NHS is focusing on making a jab of helping prevent cancer and identifying the 18 early stages of most cancers, including breast cancer, lung cancer, kidney cancer and brain cancer.

The new jab injection is much less harsh on the body than other cancer treatments like radiology or chemo and only takes seven minutes to complete. In the jab, the drugs Atezolizumab or Tecentriq will be used, and around 3,600 patients already plan to switch to the jab.

Scientists are also starting a new research that's called precision oncology, which allows doctors to observe patients’ genetic makeup and molecular characteristics. After observing doctors will then give patients specialized plans. Doctors and scientists in India are using AI to help pinpoint tumor locations and make personalized plans to stop cancer from growing.

AI also helps with screening for cancer and x-rays analysis, finding cancerous cells experts might not be able to find them. "We found that, while we as humans couldn't quite see where the cancer was, the model could still have some predictive power as to where the cancer is located,” scientist Jeremy Wohlwend said. 

In 2025, cancer took roughly around 617,598 lives, but the Cambridge University Hospitals in England is working on lowering that number by identifying 12,000 patients' DNA of cancer to to prevent early stages of cancer. The NHS is identifying these 18 early stages of cancer by testing patients' blood protein. In a screening of 440 people already diagnosed with cancer, testing correctly identified 93% of Stage 1 cancers in men and 84% in women.

Gene therapy was first internationally introduced in 1990 and helps with many different things including blindness, heart disease, haemophilia and cystic fibrosis, and other diseases. Gene therapy is also on the brink of helping cancer cures. Gene therapy kills cancer by boosting the immune system, making other treatments work better and to block molecular processes that allow cancer cells to survive.

Normally when a patient has skin cancer, doctors want to do a biopsy in which doctors remove a piece of skin tissue which is very painful for the patient. Doctors are now doing a liquid biopsy where they just test blood and not skin tissue, this method is more comfortable for the patient and less expensive for the doctors.

Instead of using chemotherapy, doctors are now trying CAR-T-cell therapy, which kills cancerous cells in the body without that harsh treatment and side effects a patient would experience with chemo. Leukemia patients found success with CAR-T-cell therapy in 2022 in England.

Scientists at University of Pennsylvania announced two of the first people treated with CAR-T-cell therapy were still in remission 12 years on. A few years later, they gave another update that one of the women treated was still continuing remission, but now she's on year 19 of being cancer free.