A miracle for cancer?.

U.S. billionaire Michael Milkin suffers from cancer. He invests huge sums in research for a cure. The most promising work to emerge from this is Dr. Donald Morton's (St. John's Hospital, Los Angeles) development of a vaccine, using antigens produced by cancer cells. It raises a strong immune response in half the patients treated. It has been used over the past 11 years on 700 patients who failed to improve under any other therapy and while many have died, there is a 2-fold increase in average survival over similar patients receiving other therapies. Dr. Gus Dalgliesh (St. George's NHS Trust, London) investigated the vaccine and found it to be particularly successful in treating brain cancer. He hopes to run a 3-year randomised worldwide trial. The film follows two patients as they undertake this therapy, one of whom survives, although the other patient's cancer was farther advanced than was apparent, and he died.