Episode
60 Minutes: Bashar al Assad, Killing Cancer
Overview
Charlie Rose interviews Syrian President Bashar al-Assad as Syria's four-year-old civil war drags on; and, 60 Minutes follows brain cancer patients in a Duke University clinical trial of a therapy that uses a re-engineered polio virus to kill cancer cells.
Details
- Series
- 60 Minutes
- Season
- Season 47
- Episode
- Episode 27
- Air date
- 2015-03-29
- Runtime
- 44 min
Episode context
Bashar al Assad, Killing Cancer is Episode 27 in Season 47 of 60 Minutes. It aired on 2015-03-29. The runtime is 44 min.
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