• Question: In the future do you think you will find a cure for cancer using radioactive drugs?

    Asked by zenamorris to Jim on 11 Mar 2013.
    • Photo: Jim O Doherty

      Jim O Doherty answered on 11 Mar 2013:


      Yes, absolutely. We’ve already found a some new types of cancer with our research, and are working towards curing those types of cancer. Chemotherapy drugs target cancer cells but also normal cells too, which is why patients lose their hair. Radioactive drugs are a bit more clever than chemotherapy drugs, they find the tumour only, so they also have a higher success rate

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