In 1986, Joy Hopkins-Hausman's sister Trudy died of breast cancer. Months later, Joy herself was diagnosed as having the disease which will kill some 42,000 women this year alone. This powerful documentary filmed over a two-year period follows Joy's progress from her acceptance of the diagnosis and mastectomy through the discovery that the cancer had spread to her lymph nodes and her quest to obtain all the information she could about her illness. Her experience with chemotherapy, support groups, breast reconstruction surgery, etc. are chronicled with care and compassion. One of her doctors, Dr. Bernie Siegel (author of Love, Medicine, and Miracles) is featured in the tape. The program is hampered somewhat by its cinema vérité approach-some of the audio is a bit fuzzy. Too, it should be noted that the program contains scenes of Joy's breast reconstruction surgery, which are likely to bother young viewers, at the least. Recommended, with the above reservations. (Available from: Willow Mixed Media, P.O. Box 194, Glenford, NY 12433.)
Cancer: Just A Word ...Not A Sentence
(1989) 45 m. $29.95 ($100 w/public performance rights). Willow Mixed Media. Vol. 4, Issue 3
Cancer: Just A Word ...Not A Sentence
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