And if you read the reports and explanations down those links, it's not a question of a magic medicine that just needs passing out, it's about a different and promising method of attacking cancers that needs to be explored.

And no doubt it will be explored, and, if it works, those explorations will come up with valuable results. But the pity is that the massive resources of pharmacological expertise which exists in our society are evidently not going to be applied to bring this about more quickly, because of the way we organise things, and the priorities which we accept.