Summary

THE ALLIANCE FOR AGING RESEARCH HOLDS A NEWS CONFERENCE WITH PATHOLOGIST CALVIN HARLEY ON THE DISCOVERY OF AN ENZYME THE GROUP SAYS ALLOWS CANCER TO ESCAPE NORMAL CELL AGING AND CELL DEATH. THE DISCOVERY PROVIDES CLUES FOR POTENTIAL OVARIAN CANCER TREATMENT

Source CONUS Archive
Record ID 243366
Story Slug OVARIAN CANCER/ ENZYME DISCOVERY (4/11/1994)
Location WASHINGTON, DC
Format TVD VO/SOT ROUGH
Date 4/11/1994
Archive Time 20:14
TRT 2:02
Supers DR. CALVIN HARLEY, PATHOLOGIST DANIEL PERRY, EXECUTIVE DIRECTOR ALLIANCE FOR AGING RESEARCH
Video Description NEWS CONFERENCE VIDEO AND SOT
Description THE ALLIANCE FOR AGING RESEARCH HOLDS A NEWS CONFERENCE WITH PATHOLOGIST CALVIN HARLEY ON THE DISCOVERY OF AN ENZYME THE GROUP SAYS ALLOWS CANCER TO ESCAPE NORMAL CELL AGING AND CELL DEATH. THE DISCOVERY PROVIDES CLUES FOR POTENTIAL OVARIAN CANCER TREATMENT
Script (SUGGESTED TRANSCRIPT OF AUDIO) 00:00 I'm Dan Perry, and I'm the executive director of the nonprofit alignment. What it means in terms of cancer treatment is that we 00:07 may be able to develop a new approach for treating cancer that isn't directed against the viability of cells, a lot of the chemotherapy that's used now are generally poisonous, they inhibit the rapid proliferation of the proliferation of cells. And there's really severe deleterious side effects for such chemicals. A telomerase inhibitor is going to ultimately stop the tumor cell from dividing, but it shouldn't have any significant impact on normal cells. So we should have a very specific inhibitor that would be effective against many different types of cancer as well. Bill Palmer's is also present in those were leading the research on that and hopefully published within a few months, definitely contained in more than settled requirements. So in all the cases of bombers inhibitor is going to have an effect in a relatively short term on wolmarans on that would be the cells that are dividing normally, body 10 should be negligible had been 01:10 raised earlier about what can be told to the general public. What researchers set out to do was to find out the mechanisms of what it is that makes normal healthy human cells age, what they found is that cancer cells don't age and die. And that's the problem with the proliferation of cancer. And now they believe that they have identified the specific element in cancer cells that cause it to control to run out of control and divide uncontrollably, and that is called telomerase. And the next step is to try to block the action of that telomerase so that cancer cells are made to age and die. And that could be a very bold new step in the treatment of cancer.
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Keywords

DISCOVERY
ENZYME
OVARIAN CANCER
RESEARCH
HEALTH
MEDICAL
AGING
HARLEY
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