What is cancer?
Description
The first episode in the Cancer Story series provides a primer on how cancer begins and grows. Using colorful animation and interviews with medical experts, the program explains normal cell behavior and cancer etiology within a larger, dramatized story of a cancer patient undergoing diagnosis and treatment. With straightforward commentary from Drs. C. Norman Coleman, Christopher Lowrey, and three other renowned M.D.s, What Is Cancer painlessly introduces a complicated and often intimidating subject. A Dartmouth-Hitchcock Medical Center Production.
Runtime
57 min
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Date of Publication
[2006], c2004
Database
Films on Demand
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