Super-jab ‘to cure cancer’
NZPA London A super-jab that will cure certain types of cancer will be available in Britain within a year. The breakthrough was revealed at the week-end by pioneering British scientist, Dr Mike Waterfield, the “News of the World” newspaper reported. He pledged that despite the appalling lack of Government money available for cancer research in Britian, the day would still be won with a cure for cancer. Dr Waterfield, of the Lon-don-based Imperial Cancer Research Fund, expects an overall cure within five years.
But, in the meantime, certain kinds of cancer which attack bone and tissue, could be cured much more quickly with the new injection. Dr Waterfield, aged 42, of Hampstead London, made the discovery with an international research team. “While there’s no way we want to give false hope to people, I would honestly hope that within the year, or at least by this time next year, we will find a drug to halt some forms of cancer,” he said.
“It would be nice to say a quick pill will solve the problems. I think it will have to be an injection.”
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Press, 4 July 1983, Page 10
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