17 May 2016 - FDA decision will fast-track research on breakthrough Duke brain cancer therapy.

In a poignant, two-part segment May 15, CBS’s 60 Minutes returned to Duke to update viewers on the poliovirus therapy developed and tested by researchers at the Preston Robert Tisch Brain Tumor Center.

Anchor Scott Pelley again led the reporting of the program, which spanned more than two years. It provides major updates to the news magazine’s initial two-part segment, “Killing Cancer,” which aired March 29, 2015.

Sunday night’s segment revisited the work of Dr. Matthias Gromeier and featured interviews with neuro-oncologists Dr. Annick Desjardins and Dr. Henry Friedman, along with and brain tumor center director Dr. Darell Bigner, who are among many on Duke's poliovirus team.

The program also resumed where it left off in the journey of Nancy Justice and her family, who came to the Preston Robert Tisch Brain Tumor Center in October 2014 to receive the poliovirus therapy after undergoing unsuccessful treatment elsewhere for glioblastoma.

For more details, go to: https://today.duke.edu/2016/05/poliovirus