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Follows a year in the work of three American scientists, Dr Paul Marks, Dr Richard Rifkind, and Professor Ronald Breslow, who are developing a new treatment for cancer - hexamethylene bisacetamide or HMBA, a...
This short film explores the causes of cancer and students are given information on ways to reduce their own risk factors. There are interviews with people who have cancer and details of the different...
A graphic explanation of the biology, prevention, early detection and treatment of breast cancer. Uses a combination of live images and computer graphics to explain breast cancer intelligibly and...
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...
Four women diagnosed with ovarian cancer talk about how they coped and what helped them to deal with their cancer and its treatment. Gynaecological oncologist Dr Richard Osborne supplies more detailed...
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...
Although lung cancer is rarely curable, it can be treated so as to achieve palliation. Professor Barry Hancock along with a pathologist, a radiographer, a lung specialist, a surgeon, a radiologist, and a...
Looks at children affected by xeroderma pigmentosum, a rare condition that makes the skin so sensitive tht any exposure to ultraviolet light would cause cancer. Shows how the study of this condition is...
Gareth Furby reports on confirmation that Melanie Appleby, one half of the popular musical duo, Mel and Kim, has been diagnosed with cancer. She is currently undergoing chemotherapy. Pete Waterman, who...
US Senator Hubert Humphrey has died of pelvic cancer. Here his life in politics is remembered, as are the last few months of his life and treatment for his terminal illness. Report by Norman Beebe.
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