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Hotel for the Hopeful

Date released

10 Jun 1963

Series name

British Movietone News

Issue no

1775

NoS ID

025131

Story no

4 / 5

MOVIETONE CARD TITLE: Hotel for the Hopeful. DESCRIPTION: The Royal Marsden Hospital in Surrey has many facilities which make the atmosphere much more like a hotel than a hospital. Everything is done for the...

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Robotic Surgery for Cancer Treatment (2010)

Director

Kevin Morrison

Subject

Medical sciences

Distribution

Sale, DVD (Region 0 NTSC, 51 minutes), $29.95

Robotic systems were first used to remove prostate cancer, then adapted for kidney cancer and bladder cancer procedures, which are more complex because of the variation in surgical anatomy, size and shape of...

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Roy Castle on his second battle with cancer (1993)

Genre

Interview

Interview with television presenter Roy Castle, who discusses his second fight with cancer. He describes his treatment, and the work he has done in the past year, but refutes claims that he has pushed...

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Matthews People: Dr Rob Buckman (1984)

Mike Matthews interviews Dr Rob Buckman, born Aug 22, 1948, best known in the TV programme Just a Minute. He talks about his life and his career. He got his degree in Medicine from Cambridge University, then...

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Reagan cancer and prognosis (1985)

Genre

Interview; News report; Press conference

Andrew Manderstam reports on US President Ronald Reagan’s colon cancer diagnosis, what the doctors say about his treatment and the possibility of early retirement. Speaking are cancer specialist Dr Steven...

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Reagan on skin cancer (1985)

Genre

Speech

Speech by US President Ronald Reagan about his diagnosis and treatment for a form of skin cancer called Basal cell carcinoma and now having to stop sunbathing.

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Boy receives cancer drug - MP criticises press (1980)

Genre

Interview

Unidentified male speaker on the administration of anti-viral drug Interferon to cancer sufferer, 14 year-old Fergal O’Harte. He criticises press coverage of the case as being sensationalist. Female...

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Breast Carcinoma: The Dilemmas (1991)

Subject

Medical sciences

An overview of current views and strategies on the treatment of breast cancer, by talking to patients and medical experts in the fields of pathology, radiotherapy and chemotherapy about the pros and cons of...

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Cancer scandal in Birmingham hospital (1993)

Genre

Interview

Paul Rowley interviews Dr Kenneth Calman, Chief Medical Officer for the Department of Health, about the cancer scandal of wrongful diagnoses in Birmingham’s Royal Orthopaedic Hospital with 42 people either...

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Mustine (2017)

Subject

Chemistry; Medical sciences

Podcast. This programme explains how the use of sulfur mustard, or mustard gas - a blister-causing agent used as a weapon during World War I - led to some of the earliest trials for anti-cancer drugs. [7...

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