'The moment you have it yourself you hear it everywhere, but for something so prevalent it's not talked about at all,' says Patrick Keane. His right arm is plugged into a tube that runs up to a bag of clear liquid in a treatment room at the Royal Free Hospital in north London, one of the UK's largest cancer treatment centres. The 56-year-old's future is dependent on the slow drip of chemicals that attack the cancer cells in his body.
Lead cancer physician at the Royal Free, Roopinder Gillmore, told Sky News: 'We are doing surgery quicker, more keyhole robotic surgery in this hospital. We do liver transplants for patients with primary liver cancer, we're trialling that out in other cancer types which is really exciting. 'We are doing more specialised radiotherapy and for me, my thing is drug treatments, and they are exponentially increasing in terms of what we can offer our patients.