SurvivorNetTV Presents: The C Word — We Can Beat Cancer Before It Beats Us
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Updated August 9th, 2023

SurvivorNetTV Presents: The C Word — We Can Beat Cancer Before It Beats Us

Shelby Black
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The C Word

  • SurvivorNetTV presents The C Word, an award-winning documentary exposing society’s influence on the bad habits we make.
  • Filmmaker Meghan O’Hara and neuroscientist Dr. David Servan-Schreiber join forces to show all of us how society is directly associated with the choices we make, and how it can increase the risk of a cancer diagnosis.
  • This radical documentary has one simple message: we can beat cancer before it beats us.
Welcome to SurvivorNetTV, where we present the award-winning documentary The C Word. In today’s society, it’s likely that all of us are afraid of the word “cancer,” but what do we really know about how our lifestyle influences a diagnosis? This documentary explores bad habits we may have and how they are associated with the disease.

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The C Word follows filmmaker Meghan O’Hara and neuroscientist Dr. David Servan-Schreiber in their quest to how society reinforces bad habits we have. It may be easy to immediately assume it’s our own fault if we are diagnosed with cancer. However, in this documentary, O’Hara and Servan-Schreiber explore society’s influence in the decisions and choices we make. Ultimately, their goal is to show us how we can be more powerful than the disease itself.

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