| Item Description: | "This documentary attempts to show why some cancers are curable and others are not. It also examines why some people are more likely to get cancer in their lifetimes. The program looks at a series of cancer patients and retells their history with the disease and the treatment they have received for it. The story of childhood leukemia is used to show how a disease that was always fatal now has a cure rate approaching 80 percent. The history of cancer treatment is traced beginning in ancient time with crude surgery and progressing through the discovery of radiation, chemotherapy and now genetic therapy as treatments. The program also recounts the various theories about what causes cancer including the viral theory that spawned America's "War on Cancer" and the new theorems that say cancer is the result of mutant genes. Interviews with leading cancer specialists have been conducted especially for this highly informative and compelling program." -- Case. |
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