Making Sense of Cancer with Hannah Fry
In an award-winning documentary, Hannah Fry takes a personal look at the issues surrounding how we screen for and treat cancer, asking if we could be overmedicalising it.
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.
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Credits
| Role | Contributor |
|---|---|
| Presenter | Hannah Fry |
| Director | Harriet Bird |
| Producer | Charlene Chika Osuagwu |
| Executive Producer | Dov Freedman |
| Executive Producer | Charlie Russell |
| Production Company | Curious Films Ltd |
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