NET is producing an hour-long special, “Living With Cancer in Nebraska,” which will premiere April 3. The special will feature several UNMC experts when it airs at 7 p.m. CDT on NET1.
On April 3, “Living With Cancer in Nebraska” will feature segments on “Rural Health and Advancements in Cancer Treatment,” “Pancreatic Cancer,” and “Impact on Families.” UNMC’s Ken Cowan, M.D., Ph.D., director of the Fred & Pamela Buffett Cancer Center, Sarah Thayer, M.D., Ph.D., physician-in-chief of the Fred & Pamela Buffett Cancer Center, and Renaisa Anthony, M.D., deputy director of the Center for Reducing Health Disparities at the UNMC College of Public Health, are among the featured participants.
The program complements the most comprehensive documentary on a single disease ever made, “Cancer: The Emperor of All Maladies,” which examines cancer with a cellular biologist’s precision, a historian’s perspective and a biographer’s passion. This three-part, six-hour documentary airs on NET today, Tuesday and Wednesday at 8 p.m. CDT.
The documentary was produced by preeminent documentary filmmaker Ken Burns, in partnership with WETA, the flagship public broadcasting station in Washington, D.C., and is based on the 2010 Pulitzer Prize-winning book The Emperor of All Maladies: A Biography of Cancer by Dr. Siddhartha Mukherjee.
Learn more at www.netNebraska.org/cancer. Use the hashtag #NECancerFilm to join the discussion.