Living With Cancer - Discovery Channel, New Documentary

Main Category: Cancer / Oncology
Also Included In: Lymphoma / Leukemia;  Breast Cancer;  Lung Cancer
Article Date: 01 May 2007 - 13:00 PST

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The Discovery Channel has a new documentary, Living With Cancer, which takes an honest look at the reality of "Living With Cancer" from the perspective of patients, survivors, family, caretakers, and doctors.

In an effort to foster a more open dialogue about cancer, Living With Cancer highlights a series of frank conversations between Ted Koppel, the host of the program, and Lance Armstrong, Elizabeth Edwards, as well as Leroy Sievers, a longtime friend and a colleague of Koppel's. Living with terminal cancer, Sievers contributes regularly on NPR and posts daily about his experience on his blog, My Cancer. The documentary includes excerpts from the blog, as well as conversations with Sievers' doctors and other patients who are treated with him.

Included below is some pertinent information about Living With Cancer:

-- Promos for the documentary and the Press Release can be downloaded here:
www.media-file.net/4/discovery/lwc

-- Link to the program site:
dsc.discovery.com/convergence/koppel/koppel.html

-- Link to "Cancer Collage," where you can share your thoughts via images, text, audio, or video:
www.discovery.com/cancer

-- Leroy Sievers' blog "My Cancer":
www.npr.org/blogs/mycancer

As part of "Koppel on Discovery," an original Discovery Channel series, Living With Cancer premieres on Sunday, May 6th at 8PM ET/PT, simultaneously on Discovery Channel and Discovery Health. The two-hour documentary will be followed by a live town hall meeting led by Ted Koppel and a panel that includes Leroy Sievers, Elizabeth Edwards, Lance Armstrong.