Cancer: The Emperor of All Maladies

Actress, Survivor, Television actress Maura Tierney talks candidly about her breast cancer diagnosis and her fears about chemotherapy.

Academy Award-nominated actor Terrence Howard talks about his emotions around his mother’s death and vows to destroy cancer in her honor.

THE STORY OF CANCER: The Emperor of All Maladies examines cancer with a cellular biologist’s precision, a historian’s perspective and a biographer’s passion. The series artfully weaves three different films in one: a riveting historical documentary; an engrossing and intimate vérité film; and a scientific and investigative report.

Dr. Sidney Farber, an oncologist at Children's Hospital in Boston, strives for a cure.

Dr. Lori Wilson is a surgical oncologist that has double breast cancer.

A young woman, a keyboard and cancer.

Jeff lost his son Pablo when he was 6 years old. He and his wife created The Pablove foundation in his son’s honor.

Dr. Lori Wilson, a cancer surgeon from Howard University Hospital, is herself diagnosed with breast cancer. She and her husband host a small gathering of family and friends, and he shaves his head along with her.

In 1947 Robert Sandler received his first injection of controversial amniopterin

The future of cancer research and treatment is optimistic.

Dr. Taylor lost her brother at a very young age to cancer.