1 in 10 adults globally suffer from chronic renal failure; the burden worldwide is increasing and is calculated to become the 5th most common cause of ‘years of life lost’ by 2040. This pathology currently costs 3% of the healthcare budget of most 1st world countries and is increasing. The main treatment modalities of progressive renal disease are renal dialysis and/or renal transplant.

Over the last 150 years, lung cancer has gone from being an obscure and rare disease to emerging as the most common cause of cancer worldwide, inparticular the most common cause of death by cancer. Risk factors for lung cancer are patients behaviour, environmental and genetic which also affect a patient’s response to treatment.

Diabetes is a chronic condition where the blood glucose levels are high. Usually patients present with...