Dr Hembury caught up with Professor Potter the Creator of the new prostate cancer drug Zytiga at the complimentary and alternative medicine CAM conference in London this weekend and managed to record an exclusive interview which shows amazing insights into the search for a cure for cancer that has led to the discoveries of Zytiga, Idoxifene, Stilserene and Salvestrols.
Dr Hembury: You must be absolutely delighted that Zytiga is now a blockbuster drug.
Prof Potter: Yes this is fantastic news at last I might get something out of it. I've waited 22 years for this. I'm set to receive royalties from the sales of Zytiga so it will be nice at long last to actually receive some financial reward for discovering this important anticancer agent. I knew when I first discovered Zytiga that it would one day become a blockbuster. The results were so good it couldn't fail. Extreme Potency. No toxicity. Very well tolerated so you cant go wrong. What more do you want, this is the perfect cure for Prostate Cancer. What has been frustrating is the length of time that it takes to develop a new drug. I discovered Zytiga 22 years ago almost to this day on the 1 st of November 1990 and here we are in 2012 and only in June this year was it approved for use in NHS hospital in the UK where it was discovered. It is ironic that it has taken US dollars and American Corporate backing to be sold back to the UK at an enormous premium. This could have been taken straight out of my lab in the Institute of Cancer Research within the Royal Marsden Hospital and given to the patients in the Hospital 20 years ago if we didnt live in such a crazy screwed up corporate society.
.....tbc
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