Maria Castano, a resident of the Liege region, suddenly healed from lung cancer at an advanced stage, which, however, condemned her the short term. A wonder drug? Almost. Thanks to a very specific action on the components of cancer cells, new treatments are able to stop the spreading of some cancers. Matière Grise discovers how these new drugs offer hope ...
Urban Roots follows the urban farming phenomenon in Detroit though a group of farmers taking matters into their own hands. Urban Roots is a timely, moving and inspiring film that speaks to a nation grappling with collapsed industrial towns and the need to forge a sustainable and prosperous future.
In this intimate and poetic narrative, the director explores her responses to and reflections on her journey as she deals with breast cancer. This sensitive video invites us to share in the opening of the heart and consider our relationship to illness and to life.
And if a team of Belgian researchers were about to highlight a revolutionary treatment that can cure with high efficiency, some forms of cancer? A few years ago, a research group of Gembloux, led by Lucas Willems led to Arsène Burny, discovered, quite by chance and a lot by intuition, that a certain type of molecule could have a surprising property: the reminded that cancer cells have to die instead of falling asleep and accumulate to form tumors. A breakthrough, which has generated much hope!
"Silent cancer", is ovarian cancer. One woman in 70 risks having it in her lifetime. We call it the silent cancer because it is very difficult to detect. The aim of this documentary is to inform women and to promote preventive measures to avoid it, appropriate screening examinations as well as treatment that can increase cure rate.
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