Curing Cancer : VHS/DVD, This program tells the story of how a small group of researchers have developed radically new ways to treat the most feared of diseases by tracing cancer back to its origins: its DNA. The program focuses on two pioneering efforts: the race between Dr. Mary Claire King and Dr. Mark Skolnick, founder of Myriad Genetics, to isolate the gene linked to breast cancer, and Dr. Brian Druker’s work that eventually led to the anti-cancer drug Gleevec, which cures chronic myeloid leukemia.


			Curing Cancer

This program tells the story of how a small group of researchers have developed radically new ways to treat the most feared of diseases by tracing cancer back to its origins: its DNA. The program focuses on two pioneering efforts: the race between Dr. Mary Claire King and Dr. Mark Skolnick, founder of Myriad Genetics, to isolate the gene linked to breast cancer, and Dr. Brian Druker’s work that eventually led to the anti-cancer drug Gleevec, which cures chronic myeloid leukemia. Extraordinary imaging shows the genetic mechanisms of cancer and how new drugs target its aberrant sections of DNA. (57 minutes) The DVD version has on-demand English subtitles and can be viewed using a DVD player or computer DVD-ROM drive.

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