We are all of us going to have to deal with Cancer in our lives in one way or another. There are many ways of finding out about the subject at large and vast swathes of information on the net about the specifics of any given variety of it. What there is a marked lack of is something that actually tells you what it's like to be the patient.
I had my Bone Marrow Transplant in 2001 and you've read about a lot of it in the pages of this very journal, but at round about the same time as I was going through that the film maker Mike Nichols took a play by Margaret Edson and made a movie about the patient's eye view. It is called Wit and it stars Emma Thompson as an academic who is diagnosed with stage 4 Ovarian Cancer. As I think of myself as quite a clever sort of fellow (although a million miles below the towering intellect of the protagonist) I was really drawn into this film but I would implore that anyone who has to deal with this most pernicious of diseases to watch this film to gain a bit of an understanding of what someone goes through. I'm not going to pretend it isn't difficult viewing but I would honestly make absolutely everyone watch it.
It isn't available on DVD in region 2 annoyingly but it is available in full on YouTube, and you can find it by clicking here
Do it.
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