![]() ![]() ![]() While those examples are sobering and spare (they bring to mind the old “The Body Human” series), it’s nevertheless far more interesting, based on the ubiquity of cancer, to consider the arc of how scientists have understood and battled it, a process which, depending on one’s point of view, has either been remarkably fast or maddeningly slow, considering that President Nixon called for a cure in 1971. Yet the impulse to put a human face on cancer’s toll by speckling such cases throughout the three nights tends to bog down the pace. Seeking to go beyond those statistics, the documentary - which derives its poetic title from Siddhartha Mukherjee’s Pulitzer Prize-winning book - opens with the story of parents dealing with the disease in their 17-month-old child, about as heartbreaking a thought as anyone could imagine. ![]()
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