Interferon was not the miracle cure for cancer hoped for in its early days

摘要

When a "World in action" team turned up at the Wellcome research laboratories in Beckenham,Kent,in the late 1970s to make a programme about interferon,they made it clear they were after "the story,not the science".The story - of a potential miracle cure for cancer - was making headlines around the world.But the science was a lot harder to interpret and,as it turned out over the subsequent 30 years,was not going to withstand the test of clinical trials or experience - at least in the field of cancer.