Episode
Horizon: Making Sense of Cancer with Hannah Fry
Overview
When she's diagnosed with cervical cancer at the age of 36, Hannah Fry explores the problematic issues surrounding how we screen for and treat cancer, asking if we could be overmedicalising it.
Details
- Series
- Horizon
- Season
- Season 59
- Episode
- Episode 3
- Air date
- 2022-06-02
- Runtime
- 60 min
Episode context
Making Sense of Cancer with Hannah Fry is Episode 3 in 2022 of Horizon. It aired on 2022-06-02. The runtime is 60 min.
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