Chemo Style on the Big Screen: Top 10 Picks for Cancer Movies

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Thursday, November 29, 2007
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From Ali McGraw's unapologizing romantic in "Love Story" to Debra Winger's wise-cracking daughter and mother of three in "Terms of Endearment," movie cancer patients usually die a beautifully poignant and peaceful death, or else, are so sick, they are beyond ...

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Thanks, Michelle-
PJ Hamel
Thursday, November 29, 2007 at 07:25 PM
...From taking some of your obviously valuable time to post here. Who knew there were THAT many movies about chemo? Thanks to NetFlix, maybe i can catch a few - relive those delightful days... PJH

Thanks
Michelle Kung
Friday, November 30, 2007 at 11:14 AM
...for the nice comment. You can definitely get all of these movies on Netflix. They may be hard to take all at once (at least it was for me), but I definitely recommend them.

Thanks Michelle!
koponen
Sunday, October 19, 2008 at 10:58 PM

Michelle,

Thanks for the post. I just finished chemo a few months ago and I've avoided a lot of these "cancer" movies...a little to raw yet for me. I just watched the movie "I wore Red Lipstick to My Mastectomy" last night....it was one of those poignant times for me...cried through the whole thing!! It might be awhile before I watch another one...but now I have a list and synopsis of what the movies are about!!!

Sincerely....thank you!

Koponen

re: Thanks Michelle!
starstruckms
Friday, October 09, 2009 at 12:11 AM

Watched this movie tonight. It had been on before & I enjoyed it just as much the 2nd time around. Did make me tear up a time or two & brought back so-oooo many memories! In November, I'll be a 30 yr breast CA survivor. I thought I was young! I was 32 & had been married to my husband for just 6 months. It is nothing you WANT to go through, but it can make you a stronger person. I feel blessed by God to still be here. And, I'm indeed thankful to my skilled doctors (two have been called home) for making me do the right thing...a mastectomy followed by a year of chemo.