Cancer: It’s not like the movies
03/25/24 at 03:00 AM
Cancer: It’s not like the movies
UCI Health, by Heather Shannon; 3/21/24
Movies have the power to make fictional stories seem so vivid they leave an impression and a feeling that lasts forever. That’s especially true for films about someone diagnosed with cancer who ultimately meets a tragic end. “Patients often come in with an image in their head based on the movies they’ve seen that had a cancer patient in it,” says UCI Health medical oncologist Dr. Arash Rezazadeh Kalebasty. ... Rezazadeh and his co-authors found several problems with how cancer was characterized in the movies, including: Cancer type ...; Curability ...; Palliative care ...