Post by patrick on Mar 30, 2015 9:37:15 GMT -5
For anyone interested in cancer:
On March 30, 31, and April 1, from 9 p.m. to 11 p.m. ET, PBS will air a three-part documentary on cancer, based on Siddhartha Mukherjee’s 2010 Pulitzer Prize winning book, The Emperor of All Maladies: A Biography of Cancer. The film is produced by Ken Burns and directed by Barak Goodman.
Presented as a history of cancer, the documentary covers the topic from its first documented diagnoses in Egypt centuries ago through to modern times, and our state of the art science to understand and control it.
Establishing the main theme of the series, Mukherjee opines, “We will always have cancer amidst us, within us, amongst us. But I think we are sitting in an extraordinary moment because every year has brought a kind of clarity to our understanding of what goes wrong in a cancer cell, and what can be targeted, can be prevented, can be treated.”
NIH Director Francis Collins, NCI Director Harold Varmus, and NCI’s Center for Cancer Research’s Steven Rosenberg, along with clinicians from several NCI-designated cancer centers provided scientific guidance and interviews for this film.
While the documentary is airing, NCI and cancer center partners will be live-tweeting cancer-related topics mentioned during the documentary – in the moment in which they are mentioned. Follow the #CancerFilm on Twitter and join in. For example, when chemotherapy is mentioned in the film, related information from several expert institutions tagged with the #CancerFilm will be tweeted.
More information and a public interactive site is available at cancerfilms.org/. Relevant information related to topics discussed in the film will be prominently featured on www.cancer.gov starting March 26.
Presented as a history of cancer, the documentary covers the topic from its first documented diagnoses in Egypt centuries ago through to modern times, and our state of the art science to understand and control it.
Establishing the main theme of the series, Mukherjee opines, “We will always have cancer amidst us, within us, amongst us. But I think we are sitting in an extraordinary moment because every year has brought a kind of clarity to our understanding of what goes wrong in a cancer cell, and what can be targeted, can be prevented, can be treated.”
NIH Director Francis Collins, NCI Director Harold Varmus, and NCI’s Center for Cancer Research’s Steven Rosenberg, along with clinicians from several NCI-designated cancer centers provided scientific guidance and interviews for this film.
While the documentary is airing, NCI and cancer center partners will be live-tweeting cancer-related topics mentioned during the documentary – in the moment in which they are mentioned. Follow the #CancerFilm on Twitter and join in. For example, when chemotherapy is mentioned in the film, related information from several expert institutions tagged with the #CancerFilm will be tweeted.
More information and a public interactive site is available at cancerfilms.org/. Relevant information related to topics discussed in the film will be prominently featured on www.cancer.gov starting March 26.