Mighty oaks: inside Royal Marsden’s new state-of-the-art research centre

By Thomas Lane2023-07-10T06:46:00

Source: Nick Caville/BDP

The Oak Cancer Centre at the Royal Marsden’s Sutton site is a state-of-the-art research and treatment facility. Thomas Lane finds out more

It used to be the case that one in three people would get cancer in their lifetime, a figure that has now increased to one in two people. There are multiple reasons for this, including the fact that longer life expectancy has increased the risk as the highest incidence of cancer cases are in people aged over 85. More worryingly, cases are rising across all age groups, with the risk increasing for the 25-to-49 age group by 22%.

The good news is that treatment has got much better, with 50% of people diagnosed with cancer going on to live more than another 10 years, double the survival rate of 40 years ago.

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