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LONDON: A British Indian doctor whose grandfather moved to the UK from a Punjab village to work in a Brylcreem factory is now leading the first. international trial. of a landmark vaccine to fight bowel cancer...
Dr Tony Dhillon (53), a consultant medical..
This vaccine is not for all patients with bowel cancer, rather 15% of the total population of patients..
This vaccine could work in other cancers and we may do trials with other cancer types later on, he added...
My parents were not formally educated and probably dont even know what I do for a job, said Dhillon, who went to UCL for medical school, did a PhD at Imperial College London and post-graduate work at Oxford..
