{"id":231,"date":"2015-02-27T15:45:13","date_gmt":"2015-02-27T15:45:13","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/stories.kera.org\/after-cancer\/?p=231"},"modified":"2015-04-06T18:46:36","modified_gmt":"2015-04-06T18:46:36","slug":"cancer-the-emperor-of-all-maladies","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/stories.kera.org\/after-cancer\/2015\/02\/27\/cancer-the-emperor-of-all-maladies\/","title":{"rendered":"Cancer: The Emperor Of All Maladies"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Starting March 30 on KERA-TV, PBS will air a special three-part film presented by Ken Burns. It\u2019s called <em>Cancer: The Emperor of All Maladies<\/em>. The film is by Barak Goodman.<\/p>\n<h4>About the film<\/h4>\n<p>The producers explain the film on the website<a href=\"http:\/\/cancerfilms.org\/\"> cancerfilms.org<\/a>: &#8220;Based on the 2010 Pulitzer Prize-winning book<span class=\"Apple-converted-space\">\u00a0<\/span><em>The Emperor of All Maladies: A Biography of Cancer<\/em><span class=\"Apple-converted-space\">\u00a0<\/span>by Siddhartha Mukherjee, the series is the most comprehensive documentary on a single disease ever made. This \u201cbiography\u201d of cancer covers its first documented appearances thousands of years ago through the epic battles in the 20th century to cure, control and conquer it, to a radical new understanding of its essence.&#8221;<span class=\"Apple-converted-space\"><a href=\"http:\/\/cancerfilms.org\/about-the-film\/\"> Learn more here.<\/a><br \/>\n<\/span><\/p>\n<p><strong>Watch the trailer<\/strong>:<br \/>\n<iframe loading=\"lazy\" width=\"900\" height=\"506\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/VqZs-F2soaw?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<h4>PERSONAL STORIES<\/h4>\n<p>Actress Maura Tierney talks about her breast cancer diagnosis.<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" width=\"900\" height=\"506\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/4CzbPwypBiY?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Jeff Castelaz talks about losing his young son to cancer.<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" width=\"900\" height=\"506\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/h1pK4lDOczA?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Jeannie Joseph on living with cancer: &#8220;You&#8217;ve got to keep fighting.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" width=\"900\" height=\"506\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/-5SL9Dqb5sU?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Dr. Carol Brown, an oncology surgeon, talks about breaking the news to patients.<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" width=\"900\" height=\"506\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/MlIao0Fik0Q?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Starting March 30 on KERA-TV, PBS will air a special&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":237,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-231","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-growing-up-after-cancer","byline-eric-aasen"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/stories.kera.org\/after-cancer\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/231","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/stories.kera.org\/after-cancer\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/stories.kera.org\/after-cancer\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stories.kera.org\/after-cancer\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stories.kera.org\/after-cancer\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=231"}],"version-history":[{"count":14,"href":"https:\/\/stories.kera.org\/after-cancer\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/231\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":256,"href":"https:\/\/stories.kera.org\/after-cancer\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/231\/revisions\/256"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stories.kera.org\/after-cancer\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/237"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/stories.kera.org\/after-cancer\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=231"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stories.kera.org\/after-cancer\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=231"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stories.kera.org\/after-cancer\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=231"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}