Find Me a Cure
Seriously...
BBC
4.1 • 885 Ratings
🗓️ 13 February 2018
⏱️ 33 minutes
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Summary
Chronic Lymphocytic Leukaemia or CLL, is the most common form of leukaemia. It's a disease which kills. The most common treatment is with chemotherapy. If that doesn't work, most patients can only expect to live for another few years at most.
But there are dramatic developments with new targeted treatments which are less toxic than conventional chemotherapy. In this programme, reporter Simon Cox follows a medical trial based at St James' hospital in Leeds which uses a unique combination of drugs designed to defeat the cancer. It's the last hope for many patients but will it work? Can researchers find a cure?
Presenter: Simon Cox Producer: Jim Frank Editor: Andrew Smith
Image: Illustration of man in a white coat looking at a test tube Credit: BBC.
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| 0:05.0 | The controversial maximum security prison impossible to escape from. |
| 0:09.0 | And one of the duties of a political prisoner is the escape. |
| 0:12.0 | The IRA inmates who found a way. of a political prisoner is the escape. |
| 0:12.5 | The IRA inmates who found a way. |
| 0:14.5 | I'm Carlo Gableer and I'll be navigating a path |
| 0:19.5 | through the disturbing inside story of the biggest jailbreak in British and Irish history. |
| 0:25.0 | The narrative that they want is that this is a big achievement by them. |
| 0:28.5 | Escape from the Maze, listen first on BBC Sounds. |
| 0:34.0 | This is the BBC. Sorry to interrupt your scheduled listening experience. |
| 0:48.0 | My name is Haley Campbell and I'm the host of UnPopped, |
| 0:51.0 | a new podcast that digs deep into pop culture. |
| 0:54.0 | Search for us and subscribe via your usual podcast, Supplier. You know when they start using words like leukemia and cancer and you might have between five and ten years to live, you know, you're so |
| 1:15.1 | it frightens it to death, isn't it? That's Richard. You don't take it in. For |
| 1:20.2 | years he's been undergoing treatment for chronic lymphotic leukemia, or CLL as it's known. |
| 1:26.7 | So has Tracy's husband? It's that not knowing, that's the scary thing about it, |
| 1:31.3 | they're not knowing about how long when it's going to happen. |
| 1:34.8 | You just don't know. But now, hope could be on the horizon. |
| 1:40.3 | Our next presentation will be by Dr Peter Hillman. |
| 1:43.4 | Initial results of the Abrutina plus phonetic clax. |
| 1:46.5 | I'm Riana Dillon and today's seriously interesting and emotional story |
| 1:51.0 | comes from Simon Cox. This is find me a cure and this is Simon's story. |
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