Guides: Breast Cancer Awareness Month: Videos

Breast Self-Exam

Video by the National Breast Cancer Foundation, 2012

Becoming familiar with your breasts and knowing what is normal for you will help you detect changes or abnormalities, if they occur. This is breast health awareness.

Experiments that point to a new understanding of cancer

TEDGlobal 2012

For decades, researcher Mina Bissell pursued a revolutionary idea -- that a cancer cell doesn't automatically become a tumor, but rather, depends on surrounding cells (its microenvironment) for cues on how to develop. She shares the two key experiments that proved the prevailing wisdom about cancer growth was wrong.

Fighting cancer with dance

TEDIndia 2009

Renowned classical Indian dancer Ananda Shankar Jayant was diagnosed with cancer in 2008. She tells her personal story of not only facing the disease but dancing through it, and gives a performance revealing the metaphor of strength that helped her do it.

Online Videos: Academic Video Online (AVON)

Academic Video Online

You can find videos on breast cancer in Academic Video Online (AVON), the library's primary databases for online videos. Videos in this database are available to current WPI students, faculty, and staff. Here are some example films available in AVON:

Life Interrupted: Telling Breast Cancer Stories by Paula Mozen (director, producer)
Publication Date: 2018
“I am sorry, but you have breast cancer.” In the United States, one in eight women will hear these shattering words in her lifetime. LIFE INTERRUPTED is a powerful film about surviving breast cancer, told through intimate storytelling and unflinching graphic imagery from the survivor’s perspective. Survivors including the filmmaker herself are confronting a life-altering diagnosis and refuse to step down. These resilient women share their journeys as they traverse the world of breast cancer, responding to their disease process and the rebuilding of their lives with honesty, dignity, humor, and grace. Breast cancer is not only an epidemic but a culturally specific disease. LIFE INTERRUPTED features diverse survivors ages 27-68 with ethnicities, including: African American, Native American, Latina and Jewish, and are shown in a range of socio-economic and geographic backgrounds.
Why Black Women Face A Triple Threat From Breast Cancer by Yamiche Alcindor (PBS NewsHour)
Publication Date: 2021
HBO presents a unique glimpse into the vibrant and burgeoning culture of Hispanic America through a series of highly personal video portraits of Latinos who have richly contributed to the fabric of contemporary society.
In the Family by Joanna Rudnick (producer, director, screenwriter)
Publication Date: 2012
At 31, filmmaker Joanna Rudnick faces an impossible decision: remove her breasts and ovaries or risk incredible odds of developing cancer. Armed with a genetic test result that leaves her vulnerable and confused, she balances dreams of having her own children with the unnerving reality that she is risking her life by holding on to her fertility. In the Family follows Joanna as she connects with other women trying to navigate the unpredictable world of predictive genetic testing. Intensely personal and timely, this provocative film asks: How much do you sacrifice to survive?
For All The World To See by Mary Raffalli (producer, CBS)
Publication Date: 2013
This Sunday Morning episode, reported by Martha Teichner, is about breast cancer and breast cancer awareness.
A Diary of Healing by Marie Mandy, Marie (director)
Publication Date: 2008
The director learns she has breast cancer, and her life is turned upside down. Her journey through the medical world, part of an artistic and personal quest, achieves unprecedented intimacy with the disease. The film weaves a dialogue between conventional and alternative medicines, as the patient explores both physical and emotional healing. Breast cancer affects one in every nine women. Isn't it time we understood this illness a little better?
Less Than One Percent by David Figueroa García (director, producer)
Publication Date: 2017
Flavio takes a mammogram as moral support to his wife, but the results will surprise them both. Less Than One Percent is a film written by Benjamín Figueroa García and directed by David Figueroa García.

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