A six-hour PBS documentary series, Ken Burns Presents Cancer: The Emperor of All Maladies, will premiere nationwide March 30, March 31, and April 1 and will feature several patient stories and interviews conducted with clinicians and scientists. The series will air in three two-hour episodes at 9 p.m. EDT each night.
“Because cancer is so feared and is now ranked by the World Health Organization as the deadliest of all diseases, we participated in this documentary to shine a light on the people working to cure and prevent it, and to help patients and families tell their stories,” said William Nelson, MD, PhD, director of the Johns Hopkins Kimmel Cancer Center. “We’ve come far in preventing and treating cancer, yet there is still much further we need to go.”
This article was adapted from information provided by Johns Hopkins Medicine.