Films for the Humanities and Sciences

What Is Cancer?

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. (57 minutes)

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Item#: BVL34010
Copyright date: ©2004
VHS ISBN 978-1-4213-0942-2
DVD (Chaptered) ISBN 978-1-4213-5000-4

Part of the Series : Cancer Story


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