TEENAGERS FIGHTING CANCER – CHANNEL 4
Filmed over nine months, this hour-long documentary goes inside Queen Elizabeth Hospital’s Young Person’s Unit, a specialised cancer ward in Birmingham where the young patients undergo months of gruelling treatment in the hope of overcoming their illness. The film covers the stories of Rebecca, an 18-year-old who’s just been diagnosed; Adam, 24, whose cancer has returned three times in the past nine years; and 16-year-old Alex, who’s facing an operation which may drastically alter his life forever. How do the teenagers and their friends and families cope with life-threatening conditions?
Monday 6 July 2009
8:00pm, Channel 4
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Hi is it possible to get hold of the documentay tonight teenagers with cancer.
My son Christopher Jones was initially asked to do this programme but was embarassed with his situation but know wishes he had done it to let other people know.
teenagers and parents are unaware with regards osteosarcoma and by the time they find out its too late there should be an anawarness campaign not just for the week but all the time in doctors surgeries and schools.
I believe 99% of the time there’s nothing to worry about the pains in you body but the 1% can save lives if checked out sooner rather that 1 2 or even 3 years down
the line. I could go on for ever but it boils down to money and the rarity of the cancer
Hi is it possible to get hold of a DVD of the documentay tonight teenagers with cancer.
My son Christopher Jones was initially asked to do this programme but was embarassed with his situation but know wishes he had done it to let other people know.
teenagers and parents are unaware with regards osteosarcoma and by the time they find out its too late there should be an anawarness campaign not just for the week but all the time in doctors surgeries and schools.
I believe 99% of the time there’s nothing to worry about the pains in you body but the 1% can save lives if checked out sooner rather that 1 2 or even 3 years down
the line. I could go on for ever but it boils down to money and the rarity of the cancer
Not a reply, but I wish to help if possible. Although now 85 years old I was diagnosed, and operated upon for osteogenic sarcoma when 18, i.e. during the last war.
The message I can give is that at least some do survive.
My operation was carried out by the Royal National Othopaedic Hospital of Great Portland Street but at the Stanmore site by a Mr.Ellis. About 2ins of my right arm lower ulna was removed.
I was kept at the hospital for about 3 months and finally ‘allowed’ to leave on condition of immediately checking back in if feeling any pain.
I only found out what the diagnosis entailed from sneaking to the hospital library and checking up, having got the nurse in trouble, by getting hold of the notes placed at the end of the bed for one of the doctors rounds.
It was a considerable shock to read that no one was expected to last more than 2 years. I had been suspicious because everybody had such a worried expression and I found it very difficult to accept I was ill After a while I began to be irritated by peoples evident sympathy and pity and it took me quite a while before I came to be grateful.
I will not elaborate further because I suspect it can be boring. Should anybody learn more I’ll welcome to provide it. At the time I was embarrassed when on being called up for army service they declared me medically unfit. I was a Belgian war refugee and felt I was being prevented from doing my duty and all I got was pity.
Roger Cloet
Dear sir/maddam
our son was diagnosed with osteosarcoma at the age of 4 I would like to thank you and your team for pointing the diffrent kinds of cancer I belive it should part of school life and I belive your programme should be at a early time.
I would like to know what kind of support I could get.
Once again I would like to thank your team.