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60 Minutes

3/29/2015: Bashar al-Assad, Killing Cancer

60 Minutes

CBS News

Society & Culture, Tv & Film

3.82.6K Ratings

🗓️ 30 March 2015

⏱️ 43 minutes

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Summary

Charlie Rose interviews Syrian President Bashar al-Assad as Syria's four-year-old civil war drags on; and, 60 Minutes follows brain cancer patients in a Duke University clinical trial of a therapy that uses a re-engineered polio virus to kill cancer cells.

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What circumstances would cause you to give up power?

0:38.3

When I don't have the public support,

0:41.3

when I don't represent the Syrian interests and values.

0:44.3

And how do you determine that?

0:46.3

I have direct contact with the people.

0:48.3

How could any...

0:49.3

So you determine whether they support you?

0:52.3

No, no, no, I don't determine. I sense, I feel I'm in contact with them.

0:56.0

I'm human.

0:58.0

Under traditional standard of care treatment,

1:03.0

Stephanie should not be standing here next to us today.

1:06.0

Absolutely not.

1:08.0

For 10 months, we've been following patients

1:10.0

through an experimental therapy at Duke University

1:13.6

that is using the polio virus to attack glioblastoma, the deadliest brain cancer there is.

1:22.6

This to me is the most promising therapy I've seen in my career, period.

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