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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