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Prognosis: Brain Cancer: Canada AM


Catalogue Number:  CTV473
Producer:  CTV
Subject:  Health and Medicine
Language:  English
Grade Level:  9 - 12, Post Secondary
Country Of Origin:  Canada
Copyright Year:  2010
Running Time:  15


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Every year in Canada, 10,000 people are diagnosed with brain tumours, and the prognosis is grim. CANADA AM launches a special series on living with the disease, the treatment and the hope for a cure. Part 1: CANADA AM introduces Canadians to Rael Herman, who was a young man with a wife and two small children when he was diagnosed with brain cancer six years ago. Beverly Thomson and Seamus O'Regan meet Rael and his family, and hear his remarkable story of hope. Part 2: CANADA AM looks at radiation and chemotherapy, two key methods of treating brain tumours and how a drug developed in part in Canada is helping extend life. Thomson and O'Regan explain how the treatments work and why they are sometimes as dangerous as the disease. Part 3: CANADA AM takes viewers inside the operating room while doctors are performing brain surgery. Thomson and O'Regan hear from the doctor, and the patient, as a tumour is removed from her brain. It's all in a day's work with the patient back home recovering by the end of the day. Part 4: So, what's next? Today, CANADA AM provides information on what the research is saying about causes of brain cancer, and the hope that new treatment may be developed down the road.
 

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