- Title: U.K.: BRITISH RESEARCHERS DISCLOSE DEVELOPMENT OF CANCER ARRESTING DRUG.
- Date: 13th November 1970
- Summary: 1. GV EXT Imperial Cancer Fund building and sign on wall. 0.11 2. LV INT technicians at work (2 shots) 0.21 3. SCU ZOOM in to CU Bottle of ICRF 159 0.28 4. SCU Dr. Hellman speaks 1.30 5. SV Technicians in laboratory. 1.33 6. CU Diagram showing path of secondary tumours to the lungs of a mouse from the primary tumour. 1.36 7. SV PAN from diagram to technicians working. 1.41 8. CU Doctor SALSBURY SOF. Salisbury SOF continues over girl injecting mouse) 2.22 9. CU Bottle of the new drug. 2.27 TRANSCRIPT: DOCTOR HELLMAN: The drug was first synthesised in the laboratories of the Imperial Cancer Research Fund in 1966 by Doctor Crichton, and then it was shown in these laboratories, my laboratories here, that it had very marked anti-tumour activity in experimental animals. We were trying at the time to develop a method for testing drugs the effect of drugs on the spread of tumours. We have only been able to complete this technique, or to make it workable, in the last two years, and since then we have tried the effect of ICRF 159, and we have found to our great interest that it would completely inhibit the spread of secondary tumours while not interfering with the growth of the primary. DOCTOR SALSBURY: Basically, we looked at the primary tumour, at the blood in which the malignant cells presumably passed and at the lungs where they established themselves in the untreated mice. And we found that in mice treated with ICRF 159 we could never find any cancer cells in the lungs or in the bloodstream. And this meant that the drug was in some way preventing cancer cells coming away from the primary growth. Initials PBS/MR/CO/22.36 PBS/MR/CO/23.07 Script is copyright Reuters Limited. All rights reserved
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