![]() Sidney Farber, I couldn’t help but think about all the researchers who have worked so incredibly hard to make painstakingly slow progress, and of course how patients have suffered through brutal cancer treatments. While watching the condensed cancer history lesson, which focused heavily on the work of Dr. Episode OneĮpisode one of the documentary, “Magic Bullets,” was mesmerizing. It is the combined stories of cancer researchers, physicians, politicians, advocates, patients, philanthropists and of course, cancer itself.įinding answers to cancer requires us to closely look at, listen to, and analyze all the various cancer angle stories. If I were to summarize this documentary in a sentence or two, it would be that it’s a conglomerate of stories. However, I totally understand why some opt out of watching or reading about cancer anything. ![]() ![]() I am one of those people who does watch TV shows and movies about cancer. I had been looking forward to watching this PBS documentary ever since I heard about it. I’ve become a very slow reader, and yes, I do attribute this in part to my cancer treatment. It took me a long time to get through it. I read the book a couple years ago and thought it was very good, though I did take many breaks and read and re-read sections at times. ![]() A while back, Dear Hubby and I sat down to watch the PBS documentary – Ken Burns Presents, Cancer: The Emperor of All Maladies, a film by Barak Goodman, based on the 2010 Pulitzer-Prize winning book, The Emperor of All Maladies: A Biography of Cancer, by Siddhartha Mukherjee. ![]()
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