The film depicting the life of a Maltese blood specialist in his fight against cancer, aired on BBC 2 last Sunday, received glowing reviews by the British media.
The film, “War in the blood”, examined a potential breakthrough in cancer treatment and told the stories of two patients who had volunteered to take part in the UK’s first human trials.
Martin Pule’, a Maltese doctor and blood specialist working at UCL Cancer Institute in the United Kingdom, has spent the past ten years engineering CAR T-cell therapy, a new leukaemia treatment.
War in Blood looks into the work carried out by Pule’ other scientists at University College London working together on the immunotherapy trials.
In its review, The Guardian writes that Martin Pule' spent his childhood dismantling radios, computers and any other devices he came across, reassembling them in alternative ways and pressing them into new services. War in the Blood (BBC Two) was about what happens when such a child grows up, becomes a doctor and turns that mindset towards the human body.
In its own review, the BBC expressed itself in similar vein, writing that Pule', “the pioneer of the treatment, was a scientific genius obsessed from an early age with dismantling and remaking things, who saw the human body as a supercomputer with the potential to work out how to heal itself.”
In its opening lines of an article reviewing the film, The Telegraph said: Martin Pule' is all about the abstract. “I’m really motivated by data. I’m not particularly motivated by seeing patients as individuals. I’m very happy that they do get better, but what we’re really trying to do here is something that’s much bigger than an individual patient.”
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