Kris: Dying To Live
Prorammes like this, my dear readers, are why Same Difference strongly believes BBC Three needs to stay on TV.
BBC Three, 9pm tomorrow.
When Kris Hallenga was diagnosed with aggressive, terminal breast cancer at the age of 23, she decided to channel her fear and anger into changing the way young women, the medical profession and the rest of the planet see and treat breast cancer in young women.
This film is about the sheer strength, passion and indomitable spirit of Kris Hallenga as she battles her illness and tirelessly promotes her charity CoppaFeel! – an energetic and fearless awareness-raising campaign dedicated to making sure other young women and their doctors are made more aware of the risks.
Kris Hallenga is an inspirational young woman on a very personal mission. This is the film of her life-enhancing fight against cancer and her life-saving campaign to battle public ignorance.
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I don’t think the public are ignorant, it is more a case of the it will never happen to me attitude, and the self denial that the little lump is something that could kill you. Despite years of prevention is better than cure methodologies being applied to health care, it is still a case of treatment of the problem rather than prevention because of this. Everyone knows smoking severely damages your health but you still get the stories of the old guy who smoked all his life and lived into his 90’s without any problems, but never the hundreds of thousands who die of cancer, heart attacks, or spend their lives on Oxygen.
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