New blood test could detect cancers before they become deadly

The lives of millions of people around the world could be saved with a new blood test that can detect eight common cancers before they become deadly. The liquid biopsy - developed by US and Australian scientists - could be avaliable within the next few years. And as this feature reports, it comes as new figures show an increase in lung cancer deaths - the result of an increase in women smoking in the 1970s.

A radical new immune therapy developed from cases of ",miraculous", cancer recovery could be tested on patients as early as next year Source: Press Association