3 x 1 hour

Follow the lives of nine people across the UK living with cancer. Filmed over a year, this series documents everything the disease has to throw at them – from the life-changing moment of diagnosis, through treatment and whatever lies beyond.
... /> Across three episodes we meet those whose lives are reshaped by a cancer diagnosis: some, like seventeen year old Phoebe, coming to terms with this for the first time and weighing up the risks of trying bold, innovative treatments abroad; others, like belly dancer Yvette, facing the news that her breast cancer of twenty years has spread.

Combining observational filmmaking and fixed-rig cameras in hospitals, The Big C & Me enters the world of the cancer patient in 2016, demystifying a disease that affects us all.
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Produced By: Keo Films

Broadcaster: BBC One | Year of Production: 2016