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The government is to spend £164m on new programmes to prevent cancer, the prime minister has announced.
David Cameron told BBC ONE's Andrew Marr show that £60m will be spent on "revolutionary new bowel cancer screening procedures."
There will also be a 1,200 extra cancer care specialists by 2012, a £50m cancer drugs fund, an expansion of radiotherapy capacity and £10 million will be spent on a national early cancer detection campaign.
Cameron said he is committed to "really updating and improving our screening processes, particularly on bowel cancer, which can save 3,000 lives a year".
"I think it is really important as we take the country through what are difficult times to say 'look, there are some things that are so important to families like my family, like thousands of families watching this programme, and the NHS is one of those things,'" he said.
The Conservative party conference got underway this afternoon, and there will be speeches later today from Eric Pickles and William Hague.
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