Cancer Videos - The Documentary Network

Flo – Photographer continues to work despite blindness, multiple sclerosis, and lung cancer

Documentary.net staff — Tue, 25 Mar 2014 09:16:48 +0000

Despite blindness, multiple sclerosis, and lung cancer, photographer Flo Fox continues to shoot the streets of New York City. No longer able to hold a camera, she instructs her aides to take photos for her. She’s an incredible woman with a feisty spirit, sharp wit, and dirty sense of humor. Festivals & Awards: Grand Jury Prize, Shorts Program, DOC NYC 2012 Best Documentary Short, LES Film Festival 2012 Best Documentary Short, Ashland Independent Film Festival 2013 Official Selection, Hot Docs 2013 Official Selection, Rooftop Films 2013 Official Selection, Palm Springs International ShortFest 2013 Official Selection, DC Shorts Festival 2013 Official Selection, Camden International Film Festival 2013 Official Selection, Hamptons International Film Festival 2013 Official Selection, Starz Denver Film Festival 2013 Official Selection, SF DocFest 2013 Official Selection, Documentamadrid 2013 Official Selection, Northside DIY Film Competition 2013 Official Selection, DocuWest Festival 2013 Official Selection, Tacoma Film Festival 2013 Official Selection, Dam Short Film Festival 2014 Official Selection, Annapolis Film Festival 2014 Official Selection, Bradford International Film Festival 2014 Runner-up, Hammer to Nail Contest Summer 2013

The Light that Shines

Documentary.net staff — Wed, 30 Jan 2013 12:48:12 +0000

Jill was married only 3 month when she lost both breast to breast cancer, she was only 32 years old. Now 35, she has been diagnosed with incurable stage 4 bone cancer. Photographer Sue Bryce invited her to Paris for a photo shoot. This documentary shows the outcomes of this trip and portraits Jill, a powerful woman. This is not a story about cancer. This is a story about love, and it's a story for all. A moving and touching documentary for all women and their families going through their battle with cancer. Film by Hailey Bartholomew http://www.youcantbeserious.com.au/blog/the-light-that-shines/ Producer & Photographer: Sue Bryce http://www.inbedwithsue.com/the-light-that-shines/ Find Jill at Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/JillBrzezinskiConleyBreastFriends

Resonance – Mobile Phone Technology Causing Cancer?

Documentary.net staff — Wed, 12 Dec 2012 18:23:30 +0000

The film reveals how we have developed an amazing connection to the natural frequencies of the planet. connections which have been measured in science for 60 years and control our mental and physical health. it shows how all life has a magnetic sense through a protein cell called a crypto chrome. it proves that the demise of so many creatures is connected to the mobile phone explosion and reveals for the very first time the actual mechanism by which man made wireless frequencies are causing us all harm. Two billion years ago life first arrived on this planet; a planet, which was filled with a natural frequency. As life slowly evolved, it did so surrounded by this frequency. and Inevitably, it began tuning in. By the time mankind arrived on earth an incredible relationship had been struck; a relationship that science is just beginning to comprehend. Research is showing that being exposed to this frequency is absolutely integral to us. It controls our mental and physical health, it synchronizes our circadian rhythms, and it aids our immune system and improves our sense of wellbeing. Not only are we surrounded by natural frequencies, our bodies are filled with them too. Our cells communicate using electro magnetic frequencies. Our brain emits a constant stream of frequencies and our DNA delivers instructions, using frequency waves. Without them we couldn't exist for more than a second. This delicate balance has taken billions of years to perfect. But over the last 25 years the harmony has been disturbed. and disturbed dramatically. Mankind has submerged itself in an ocean of artificial frequencies. They are all around us, filling the air and drowning out the earth's natural resonance. To the naked eye the planet appears to be the same. But at a cellular level it is the biggest change that life on earth has endured; the affects of which we are just starting to see and feel. by James Russel and John k Webster

The Cancer Sell

Documentary.net staff — Sun, 15 Jan 2012 20:42:09 +0000

Taking an electric shaver, I ploughed through my hair until it was all gone. I then punched a hole in the side of my handbag, stuck a tiny lens through it, securing it with gaffer tape and drove to the medical clinic in Tijuana, Mexico. The doctor was not expecting me. He emerged from the building in a T-shirt, but sensing a potential client, welcomed me into his office and began explaining how he could save my life. By Sarah Macdonald. Last year I was diagnosed with breast cancer. It turned out I had a 13cm tumour in my left breast that seemed to come from nowhere. I underwent chemotherapy, a mastectomy and then intensive radiotherapy that left me drained and exhausted. Fortunately it worked and my condition went into remission, but throughout it all I spent hours on the internet searching for websites that could give me my statistical chances of survival. They always came out at 50/50. Alongside the cancer chat rooms and online supplements stores I came across a plethora of websites promoting alternative cancer therapy clinics, many based in Tijuana, Mexico. They offer an eclectic range of treatments - everything from hyperthermia and Sono Photo Dynamic therapy to the more widely known Laetrile (cyanide derived from the apricot kernel) and shark cartilage. Over the last 40 years these clinics have attracted high profile names like Farah Fawcett, the actor Steve McQueen and, more controversially, the wife of civil rights campaigner Martin Luther King Jr. Coretta Scott King had advanced ovarian cancer. In 2006, she booked into a clinic called Hospital Santa Monica under an assumed name and died there three days later. This film came about because I wanted to find out more, to investigate these treatments and the clinics behind them. At first it seemed easy enough. The facilities promote their services through glossy brochures and online video testimonials, such as one from a woman called Lorraine Weaver, who describes how she reacted to suggestions for conventional medical treatment for lung cancer: "They said they were going to do chemo and radiation and I said I don't think so. I walked out and called my niece and she said you go to Oasis of Hope ... and I came down and I was cured and I thank God every day, don't ever give up hope."

Last Minutes with Oden

Documentary.net staff — Mon, 24 Oct 2011 14:40:29 +0000

Jason Wood shares a very sad moment with the filmmakers when Oden's struggle with cancer finally comes to an end. A moving documentary about a friendship to end.

Burzynski: Cancer Is Serious Business

Documentary.net staff — Tue, 14 Jun 2011 13:58:57 +0000

This documentary takes the audience through the treacherous, yet victorious, 14-year journey both Dr. Burzynski and his patients have had to endure in order to obtain FDA-approved clinical trials of Antineoplastons. It is free to watch until ~~June 20th~~ further notice. Burzynski, the Movie is the story of a medical doctor and Ph.D biochemist named Dr. Stanislaw Burzynski who won the largest, and possibly the most convoluted and intriguing legal battle against the Food & Drug Administration in American history. His victorious battles with the United States government were centered around Dr. Burzynski's gene-targeted cancer medicines he discovered in the 1970's called Antineoplastons, which have currently completed Phase II FDA-supervised clinical trials in 2009 and could begin the final phase of FDA testing in 2011–barring the ability to raise the required $150 million to fund the final phase of FDA clinical trials. When Antineoplastons are approved, it will mark the first time in history a single scientist, not a pharmaceutical company, will hold the exclusive patent and distribution rights on a paradigm-shifting medical breakthrough. Get the DVD here