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Transcript: Interview: Dr. Vincent DeVita, Dr. Brian Druker, Dr. Jerome Groopman and Dr. Dennis Slamon discuss the subject of so-called targeted drug therapies in dealing with cancer
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- Talk of the Nation (NPR)
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- June 1, 2001
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Interview: Dr. Vincent DeVita, Dr. Brian Druker, Dr. Jerome Groopman
and Dr. Dennis Slamon discuss the subject of so-called targeted drug
therapies in dealing with cancer
Host: IRA FLATOW
Time: 2:00-3:00 PM
IRA FLATOW, host:
This is TALK OF THE NATION/SCIENCE FRIDAY. I'm Ira Flatow.
Every year, more than half a million Americans die of cancer. Only
heart diseases kills more people in the US. And this year, 30 years
after Richard Nixon declared a war on cancer, still only a small number
of cancers can be cured today. But now these decades of basic cancer
research are beginning to bear fruit. Researchers have learned that
cancer is not one disease, but many. ...