60 Minutes updates viewers on poliovirus therapy for glioblastoma
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CBS's 60 Minutes updates viewers on the polio virus therapy for brain tumor developed and tested at Duke's Preston Robert Tisch Brain Tumor Center.
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FDA's breakthrough therapy designation expedites development
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In a poignant, two-part segment May 15, 2016, CBS’s 60 Minutes returned to Duke to update viewers on the poliovirus therapy developed and tested by researchers at the Preston Robert Tisch Brain Tumor Center.
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Anchor Scott Pelley again led the reporting, which spanned more than two years. It provides major updates to the news magazine’s initial two-part segment, “Killing Cancer,” which aired March 29, 2015.
Sunday night’s segment revisited the work of Matthias Gromeier, MD, and featured interviews with neuro-oncologists Annick Desjardins, MD, and Henry Friedman, MD, along with and brain tumor center director Darell Bigner, MD, PhD, who are among many on Duke's poliovirus team.
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