The Big C and Me

Episode
The Big C and Me - Ep1
Broadcast Info
2016 (58 mins)
Description
The Big C & Me follows nine people across the country living with cancer. Filmed over a year we see them experience everything the disease has to throw at them. From diagnosis, through treatment to whatever lies beyond. Combining observational filmmaking and fixed-rig cameras in hospitals, The Big C & Me enters the world of the cancer patient in 2016.
In Episode One we meet three people who share one thing: the hope of seeing a life beyond their cancer. In North Wales Sally, a mother of five, is hoping that a stem-cell transplant will finally end her relationship with a disease she has lived with for ten years. With news that a perfect match has been found it’s possible she may finally be cancer-free but with her body exhausted from years of treatment, it’s a procedure that brings huge risk.
In Leeds, we meet Dominic in the consulting room as he learns that he is one of the very few men in the country to be diagnosed with breast cancer. A straight-talking Yorkshireman, Dominic spends much of his time with his prized pigeons. As he waits for his mastectomy, it’s these that occupy his mind not his cancer. In London, Yvette, a belly-dance teacher and performer, faces a critical decision as her breast cancer, which she has lived with for twenty years, begins to spread. In the hope of halting this, Yvette is offered the chance to be at the forefront of medical science by joining a clinical trail but it’s a leap in the dark and she waits anxiously to discover whether these new drugs might work.
Genre
Medicine; Science; Research; Health and Social Care

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The Open University, "The Big C and Me". https://learningonscreen.ac.uk/ou/search/index.php/prog/225760 (Accessed 10 Jan 2025)