Episode 1 of the documentary Emperor of all Maladies titled Magic Bullets The Em
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Episode 1 of the documentary Emperor of all Maladies titled Magic Bullets
The Emperor of all Maladies: Episode 1: Magic Bullets
The collaboration increased funding for cancer research, It increased awareness. It favored prevention over research and established comprehensive cancer centers. These centers screened, treated patients and increased awareness about the disease. They increased research on testing chemicals for its carcinogenic effect.
9. Explain how this action greatly promoted research and treatment of cancer patients.
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The story involves a 14 month old patient named Robert Sandler who was diagnosed with leukaemia in 1947.
He was injected with a cellular poison named Aminopterin by Dr.Sidney Faber.
The drug acted as folic acid inhibitor and there by inhibited the growth of blood cells.
This experiment though couldn't save the child but his condition was compared with that of his identical twin to understand cancer cell death and the procedure introduced the new age idea of chemotherapy.
In chemotherapy,drugs that kill cells are injected.Cancer cells,being fast dividing cells end up taking up a major part of the injected drug and die out(though normal cells are also affect,but not to that extent).
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