Episode
Horizon: Cancer - The Search for the Virus
Overview
In this the first of two programmes dealing with cancer, Horizon looks at the intensive search now going on to discover whether a virus is one of the causes of cancer in humans and at the implications of this search in the treatment for such killer diseases as leukemia.
Details
- Series
- Horizon
- Season
- Season 4
- Episode
- Episode 11
- Air date
- 1967-06-06
- Runtime
- 60 min
Episode context
Cancer - The Search for the Virus is Episode 11 in 1967 of Horizon. It aired on 1967-06-06. The runtime is 60 min.
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