Cancer Detectives: Finding the Cures

Name: Cancer Detectives: Finding the Cures
Released: 2025-11-20T00:00:00.000Z
Cast: Sarah Blagden, Richard Mair, Caroline Dive

TV Show · Documentary

Three trailblazing scientists take on cancer, changing peoples' lives right now. Can professor Sarah Blagden create a breakthrough vaccine to stop lung cancer before it even starts?

2025 · 46m

Starring Sarah Blagden, Richard Mair, Caroline Dive

Director Nick Shaw

EPISODE 1

Episode 1

Professor Sarah Blagden's clinical trials feature Trevor, a retired Navy veteran whose skin cancer has spread, and 26-year-old Ella with a genetic condition that gives her a 90 percent chance of developing the disease.
EPISODE 2

Episode 2

Neurosurgeon and scientist Richard Mair races to treat patients with deadly brain cancers. Can his world-first clinical trial give patients more time? Richard needs to be fast. He analyses patients' tumour DNA and matches them with targeted drugs.
EPISODE 3

Episode 3

Through Caroline Dive's work, we meet mechanic Lee, a medical mystery. Doctors can't find where Lee's cancer started. Could Caroline's pioneering blood tests help? Damian hopes to join a trial to test whether his recent skin cancer can come back.