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Monday, April 06, 2015

Little heroes of the war on cancer

For the parents of children living with cancer, there is often so little hope.

And for those facing the bleakest of prognoses – that, barring a miracle, the disease will cut short their young lives – the agony is almost indescribable.

So the decision to enrol such a child on to a trial for largely untested treatments that may save them, but may make them suffer far more, is another kind of mental anguish altogether.

Now, a ground-breaking television documentary filmed over two years follows three children and their families through such a situation.

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