By the year 2050 cancer may be completely eradicated in people under 80-years-old, according to a major study by University College London.
The secret to making cancer almost obsolete is a daily low-dose aspirin, according to the experts in the study.
"It is realistic to expect by 2050 nearly all cancer related deaths in children and adults aged up to (say) 80 years will have become preventable through life style changes and because of the availability of protective technologies and better pharmaceutical and other therapies," the study reads, according to Telegraph.
Experts have been arguing over the risks versus the benefits of aspirin, but Professor Jack Cuzick, who lead the research, said taking a daily 75mg aspirin was the best positive step to lower their risk of the disease. He cited the study, which found that for every death caused by the aspirin 17 lives were saved.
Advances in medicine and early detection, paired with the daily aspirin, will make it a rarity for cancer to take the life of those in middle age, according to the study.
"This is a projection of what is already happening," Cuzick told Telegraph. "Overall age-standardised cancer deaths are down 20 per cent since about 1990. What makes this a special point in history is that cancers are in the process of becoming either preventable or effectively curable."
In the United Kingdom, where the study was conducted, there were more than 160,000 deaths from cancer in 2012, according to Macmillan.
This number is decreasing every year.
By the year 2020 Macmillan expects about 47 percent of people to get cancer. They expect that number to drop to 38 percent by 2040.
