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Cancer Research: Turning down a tempting offer
It's a dreaded disease that has afflicted humans for centuries. In recent decades, scientists around the world have been tirelessly searching for a cancer cure. Canadians are no exception. Amid constant fights for funding, concerns about "brain drain" and controversies over alternative therapies, Canada has made some vital breakthroughs in cancer research — from the invention of the "cobalt bomb" in the 1950s to the more recent innovations of cancer research icon Tak Mak.
Program: CBC Television News
Broadcast Date: Jan. 8, 1987
Guest(s): Tak Mak
Reporter: Brenda Craig
Duration: 1:26
Last updated: March 28, 2013
Page consulted on March 28, 2013
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