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About the Show
What is the truth about cancer? In the PBS documentary, The Truth About Cancer, emmy award-winning filmmaker Linda Garmon attempts to answer this tough question through a series of poignant stories of patients battling the disease-including the moving story of her husband’s battle with cancer. Following the program, journalist and cancer survivor Linda Ellerbee will moderate a dialogue, Take One Step: A Conversation About Cancer with Linda Ellerbee,featuring a panel of doctors, all of whom are cancer survivors themselves. Having sat on both sides of a cancer diagnosis, the panel members share their unique perspectives, offering both personal and professional observations on how to handle a cancer diagnosis, what to say to loved ones, how to advocate for yourself, and how best to live your life with cancer. |
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The Truth About Cancer is a Carousel Film LLC Production for WGBH Boston. Funding for The Truth About Cancer is provided by the John Wayne Cancer Foundation and Susan G. Komen for the Cure. Additional funding provided by the Corporation for Public Broadcasting and public television viewers. Fighting the Battle Together is an original production of WQLN-TV in Erie, Pennsylvania. © 2007 WQLN Productions |