When her dad is diagnosed with cancer, Abby Pond is sent on a journey home, across the world, and into a new science.
This story originally aired on December 2, 2012.
As Kristine Lycke enters kindergarten, her mother starts treatment for a mysterious illness.
After surviving leukemia in her childhood and becoming a cancer research scientist, Vicky Forster finds herself working alongside the same doctor who saved her life.
When surgeon Bhuvanesh Singh sees his patient back in the hospital months after what he thought was a successful surgery, he grapples with feelings of failure.
While recovering from prostate cancer surgery, Dana Strout finds a creative solution to his incontinence.
Barbara Abernathy has always felt at home in the ocean, but when she undergoes a bone marrow transplant, her doctor tells her she can't go into the water for a year.
Growing up, Sheena Cruickshank's teenage older brother inspires her love of science, but then one summer he returns from university with a lump on his arm.
Actress and playwright Jacey Powers faces a difficult decision when she’s diagnosed with breast cancer just as she discovers she's pregnant.
Biochemist Melanie McConnell encounters unexpected resistance when she tests an experimental cancer treatment.
Actor Gail Thomas is invited to take part in a study testing mushrooms as treatment for depression in cancer survivors.
Benjamin Rubenstein survived cancer, but now there are new challenges to contend with.