Pandora's Helix

Dr Michael Neef, consultant in child oncology at a large city hospital, is cautiously optimistic when he is giver the go-ahead to carry out gene therapy trials on some of his terminally ill patients. The biotechnology company involved believes that it has come up with a treatment for malignant cancer and the hospital administrators, reeling after a recent bout of bad publicity, see this as an opportunity to get some good press coverage for a change.But as the trials progress, the press - largely in the form of journalist, Eve Sayers - becomes more interested in the deaths of two young girls. Originally thought to have died from viral pneumonia, post-mortem examinations reveal the presence of an underlying cancer, so severe that only recent exposure to a powerful carcinogen can account for it.As more deaths follow and the city's Public Health Department fails to trace the source of the carcinogen, all the signs point towards a horrifying scenario, though the powers-that-be refuse...