ABC's Australian Story - "His Driving Force" | Col Reynolds | The Kids' Cancer Project

This Australian Story program centres on a remarkable friendship between a top scientist and a coach driver and a crazy brave dream to do something about childhood cancer.

Their unlikely alliance has forged a breakthrough that's creating excitement around the world.

Col Reynolds started raising funds to help children with cancer after a chance encounter at a hospital.

He was introduced to cancer researcher Professor Peter Gunning who desperately needed funds to explore a radical new way of forcing cancer cells to collapse by 'killing' a single component.

By 2009 Professor Gunning and his associates had developed a drug and began lab tests.

Last year their breakthrough findings were published in the prestigious Cancer Research Journal with human trials now not too far off...

Find out more at www.thekidscancerproject.org.au