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1 online resource (streaming video file) (28 min. 42 sec.) ; 173539094 bytes |
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Introduced by Caroline JonesMonday night's program centres on a remarkable friendship between a top scientist and a coach driver and a crazy brave dream to do something about childhood cancer. Their unlikely alliance has forged a breakthrough that's creating excitement around the world.Col Reynolds started raising funds to help children with cancer after a chance encounter at a hospital. He was introduced to cancer researcher Professor Peter Gunning who desperately needed funds to explore a radical new way of forcing cancer cells to collapse by 'killing' a single component.By 2009 Professor Gunning and his associates had developed a drug and began lab tests. Last year their breakthrough findings were published in the prestigious Cancer Research Journal with human trials now not too far off |
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Broadcast 2014-03-03 at 20:00:00 |
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Classification: NC |
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Cancer -- Treatment.
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Cancer cells -- Effect of drugs on.
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Cancer in children -- Treatment.
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Drug development.
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Fund raising.
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New South Wales -- Sydney.
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Streaming video
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Jones, Caroline, host
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Dalla-Pozza, Luce, contributor
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Ford, Kim, contributor
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Gunning, Peter, contributor
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Neilson, Peter, contributor
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Olver, Ian, contributor
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Reynolds, Col, contributor
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Reynolds, Simmon, contributor
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Sjollema, Merveen, contributor
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Sjollema, Rob, contributor
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Stehn, Justine, contributor
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Willows, Alexander, contributor
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