SCIENTISTS are on target to develop a cure for dementia within the next 10 years, the Government’s dementia tsar has revealed.
Alistair Burns, NHS England’s national clinical director for the brain disease, says he is confident there will be a cure, or at least a drug that will significantly slow down its progression, by 2025.
In an exclusive interview with the Sunday Express, Professor Burns, 56, claimed advances in treatment will eventually catch up with those made in cancer care.
More people than ever before are being diagnosed with the illness, with an extra 10,000 every month being added to the dementia register.
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