Nova - Cancer Warrior

Nova - Cancer Warrior


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Studio: Wgbh Boston
Product Type: DVD

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Curing cancer is medicine's holy grail, and its Sir Galahad might be a quiet Boston researcher. Judah Folkman has spent 40 years studying tumors as a surgeon, and Nova: Cancer Warrior examines his career and exciting breakthroughs. Focusing on the blood vessels that feed tumors rather than the cancer itself, he and his colleagues have made giant steps toward starving the bad cells while keeping the rest of the body healthy. Clinical trials at the University of Wisconsin should offer crucial evidence in living patients; at the same time, lab research is quickly finding newer and better candidates for treatment. Including lab footage, interviews with researchers and patients, and careful explanations of the scientific concepts involved, the program goes far to convince the viewer that safe and effective treatments for cancer may soon be available. --Rob Lightner
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Imagine cancer as a highly manageable disease. Imagine treatment with few side effects. Imagine a revolution in medicine. As a young doctor, Dr. Judah Folkman proposed that tumors cannot grow beyond the size of a pinhead without a network of blood vessels to nourish them. He also believed if the blood supply was blocked, the tumor couldn't grow to become life threatening. Folkman shares his controversial hypothesis as well as the frustrating roadblocks on the way to developing a potentially breakthrough cancer therapy. And hear the personal stories of courageous cancer patients participating in clinical drug trials. Special features include: access to the Cancer Warrior companion Web site; chapter search; English audiotrack and English subtitles (CC); and Dolby sound.
Nova - Cancer Warrior
Average customer rating: 5 out of 5 stars
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 Nova - Cancer Warrior
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Director: Nancy Linde
Manufacturer: Wgbh Boston
ProductGroup: DVD
Binding: DVD

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ASIN: B00005NSY4
Release Date: 2001-10-02

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Curing cancer is medicine's holy grail, and its Sir Galahad might be a quiet Boston researcher. Judah Folkman has spent 40 years studying tumors as a surgeon, and Nova: Cancer Warrior examines his career and exciting breakthroughs. Focusing on the blood vessels that feed tumors rather than the cancer itself, he and his colleagues have made giant steps toward starving the bad cells while keeping the rest of the body healthy. Clinical trials at the University of Wisconsin should offer crucial evidence in living patients; at the same time, lab research is quickly finding newer and better candidates for treatment. Including lab footage, interviews with researchers and patients, and careful explanations of the scientific concepts involved, the program goes far to convince the viewer that safe and effective treatments for cancer may soon be available. --Rob Lightner

Description

Imagine cancer as a highly manageable disease. Imagine treatment with few side effects. Imagine a revolution in medicine. As a young doctor, Dr. Judah Folkman proposed that tumors cannot grow beyond the size of a pinhead without a network of blood vessels to nourish them. He also believed if the blood supply was blocked, the tumor couldn't grow to become life threatening. Folkman shares his controversial hypothesis as well as the frustrating roadblocks on the way to developing a potentially breakthrough cancer therapy. And hear the personal stories of courageous cancer patients participating in clinical drug trials. Special features include: access to the Cancer Warrior companion Web site; chapter search; English audiotrack and English subtitles (CC); and Dolby sound.

Customer Reviews:

5 out of 5 stars Correction.......2006-06-28

Just read Robert Cook's biography of Judah Folkman, "Dr. Folkman's WAR: Angiogenesis and the Struggle to Defeat Cancer", which was excellent. I was thinking about buying copies for my group to read, a little inspiration never hurts, but then remembered this NOVA program. I haven't seen it since it originally aired, but it impressed me (and my non-scientist significant other) at the time.

By the way, I have to disagree with the previous comment that most approved anti-cancer drugs are statins. Statins are cholesterol lowering drugs, although they may or may not have some anti-cancer activity as well. But they are not approved for cancer. Also, the recently approved drug, Avastin, is not a statin, but a monoclonal antibody targeting VEGF, a key regulator of blood vessel growth in tumors, which you will hear a lot more about in this NOVA episode.

5 out of 5 stars Great inspiring material.......2005-05-30

Clear, inspiring and well narrated. This is the story of Dr. Judah Folkman's quest for a tumor growth inhibitor known as angiostatin.

The results on mouse were perfect. The ten mice the got the inibitor had their tumors resolved, while the ones that did not get the angiostatin had worsening tumors. On humans, it was a different story.. there was some success for some patients, but it was not as easy as a magic drug. Cancer is indeed complex.

However, if you read on the latest cancer drugs approved by the FDA today in 2005, you will find that most of them are statin based. A 10 year study of more than 30,000 men proved that people who take statin drugs to lower cholesterol have a lower prostate cancer risk. Breast cancer also found better numbers with statins.

The FDA just approved Avastin for colon cancer.. again this is a statin based drug.

Great true story.

5 out of 5 stars SUPERB!.......2001-06-13

Fascinating, clear, compelling story of a dedicated scientist and a radical new way to treat cancer. Everyone touched by cancer should see this film.

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