For Release: 2008-04-01 08:21:00
What is the truth about cancer? Is it the same deadly killer it was 30 years ago — or are people making progress in the battle against the disease? The Truth About Cancer, airing Wednesday, April 16 at 9/8 p.m. CT on KET1 and KET HD, answers these questions through the poignant stories of patients battling the disease.Comprising a 90-minute documentary followed by a 30-minute panel discussion, the program takes a deep look inside the cancer field, gauging how far people have come in this decades-old war and asking, “Why does anyone still die of cancer?”
Part science, part personal catharsis, part character-driven storytelling, The Truth About Cancer is narrated by producer, writer and director Linda Garmon, who tells the moving story of her husband’s battle with cancer. Over the course of the film, Garmon returns to the same Boston-area hospitals at which her husband was treated and exposes startling truths about survival rates of metastasized cancers and the limited success of drugs and clinical trials.
Interwoven throughout are the stories of three additional cancer patients, as well as their families and doctors, as they navigate the deeply personal decisions surrounding the disease. The documentary also follows several medical professionals working to promote screening, research the latest developments in cancer treatment, and help patients and their families live with a cancer diagnosis.
Following the documentary is a 30-minute panel discussion. In “Take One Step: A Conversation About Cancer with Linda Ellerbee,” the journalist and breast-cancer survivor moderates a dialogue featuring a panel of doctors, all of whom are cancer survivors themselves.
The Truth About Cancer is produced by Carousel Films LLC Production for WGBH/Boston. More information about KET programming and education services, as well as how to support KET, can be found at www.ket.org.
Contact: Ellen Soileau
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