1 Season
5 Episode
DNA - Season 1 Episode 4 Curing Cancer
Bud Romine was diagnosed with incurable cancer in 1994. He was given three years to live. in 1996 a newspaper article caught his eye. The article described the work of a local doctor, Brian Druker, who was testing a new kind of cancer drug. In 1997, months away from death, Bud Romine became the first patient ever to take Gleevec. Within 17 days, Bud had returned to perfect health. Indeed, the drug seems to cure everyone with Bud's disease -- Chronic Myeloid Leukemia -- by fixing the DNA that causes it.
- Country : United Kingdom, United States of America
- Genre : Documentary
- Director :
- Cast : Jeff Goldblum
