Conquering Cancer with Drugs from Nature's Medicine Cabinet

Despite a four-decade “war on cancer,” this year, 1.5 million Americans will be diagnosed with a form of this broad group of diseases, and a half million will die as a result. Beginning in the late 1930’s - early 1940’s, researchers were inspired by the success in treating infectious diseases with chemicals isolated from microorganisms and other natural products, such as penicillin from a fungus. Could chemicals battle cancer too?

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This episode was published on Aug 10, 2016.

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