Making Sense of Cancer with Hannah Fry
59 mins
Hannah Fry, a professor of math, is used to investigating the world around her through numbers. When she's diagnosed with cervical cancer at the age of 36, she starts to interrogate the way we diagnose and treat cancer by digging into the statistics to ask whether we are making the right choices in how we treat this disease. Are we sometimes too quick to screen and treat cancer? Do doctors always speak to us honestly about the subject? It may seem like a dangerous question to ask, but are we at risk of overmedicalizing cancer? At the same time, Hannah records her own cancer journey in raw and emotional personal footage, where the realities of life after a cancer diagnosis are laid bare.
Jack Bootle
Commissioning Editor
Lydia Thatcher
Post Producer
Jane Greenwood
Editor
Jane Hodge
Additional Editor
Barry Whittaker-Gilbey
Additional Music
Harriet Bird
Director