War in the Blood: A Cure for Cancer?
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YEAR: 2019 | LENGTH: 1 part (89 minutes) | SOURCE: BBC
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An intimate, feature-length documentary following two patients through groundbreaking ‘first in-human’ trials for CAR T-cell therapy, a treatment described as the beginning of the end of cancer.
Not allowed to meet and separated by two floors of a hospital, 53-year-old Graham and 18-year old-Mahmoud are nevertheless bound together by their commitment to the treatment and their faith in the science. Terminally ill, the trial represents their only option. How do their ages and life experiences affect their physical and emotional response?
For Martin Pule, the scientist who has developed the treatment, the responsibility of curing patients is both exciting and daunting. He knows he stands on the cusp of a breakthrough that could radically change the way we treat cancer.
At the heart of this film is the complex relationship between the patients and the clinical team. How much hope can the patients be given when they are effectively going into these trials as human guinea pigs? The patients and clinical team must weigh up hope with realism and their response is a profound and revealing reflection of the human condition.
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YEAR: 2019 | LENGTH: 1 part (59 minutes) | SOURCE: BBCdescription:
Proton beam therapy is the one of the most technologically advanced though expensive cancer treatments in the world – but it has the potential to save the lives of children with otherwise incurable cancers.Over two years, Horizon follows the engineers, scientists and medics as they race to build two new centres, one at the Christie Hospital in Manchester and one at University College Hospital in London, as well as following as the first children awaiting the lifesaving treatment. This is one of the most complex challenges the NHS has ever attempted.At the cutting edge of particle physics, proton beam therapy involves splitting hydrogen atoms to create a beam of protons travelling at two-thirds the speed of light, which target tumours with millimetre precision. But doing this in the heart of two of our biggest cities is no easy feat. The process generates so much radiation it needs to be housed in a maze-like nuclear bunker, with walls four metres thick. 2,000 tonnes of precision instruments are installed – more than four jumbo jets worth – and it all has to work perfectly.This special BBC Two programme goes behind the scenes on the £250 million cancer cure – from digging the biggest, widest hole ever to existin London to the treatment of the first patients in the UK.SIMILAR TITLES:
War in the Blood: A Cure for Cancer?
BBC Two - Horizon, 2019, The 250 Million Pound Cancer Cure
Following the NHS as they start to implement proton beam therapy.BBC
BBC Two - War in the Blood: A Cure for Cancer?
Documentary following two cancer patients through groundbreaking ‘first in-human’ trials.BBC
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