Making sense of Cancer : Hannah Fry

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Must watch award documentary.You will learn something new.

Hannah Fry, a professor of maths, is used to investigating the world around her through numbers. When she's diagnosed with cervical cancer at the age of 36, she starts to interrogate the way we diagnose and treat cancer by digging into the statistics to ask whether we are making the right choices in how we treat this disease. Are we sometimes too quick to screen and treat cancer? Do doctors always speak to us honestly about the subject? It may seem like a dangerous question to ask, but are we at risk of overmedicalising cancer?

In an award-winning documentary, Hannah records her own cancer journey in raw and emotional personal footage, where the realities of life after a cancer diagnosis are laid bare (on BBC IPlayer) Review copied from site

 

[Revoltingest]

It's an on-going issue. The medical & public
health communities continually debates how
soon to do what testing, when to use which
treatment....or none.

 

[Daemon Sophic]

It also varies from society to society. In some, the people want the diagnosis ASAP, and all treatments utilized. No matter what.
In some, the patient is not to be told, and only the family (next of kin) can hear the diagnosis. Leaving it to them to choose for the patient (obviously this latter group is NOT the U.S.).