Tuesday, November 9, 2010

Most Cancer Subjected Movies

Cancer is a group of many diseases caused by out-of-control multiplication and spread of abnormal cells. There are over 100 different types of cancer, and each is classified by the type of cell that is initially affected.
 
 
Cancer harms the body when damaged cells divide uncontrollably to form lumps or masses of tissue called tumors (except in the case of leukemia where cancer prohibits normal blood function by abnormal cell division in the blood stream). Tumors can grow and interfere with the digestive, nervous, and circulatory systems and they can release hormones that alter body function. Tumors that stay in one spot and demonstrate limited growth are generally considered to be benign.
 
 

The branch of medicine concerned with the study, diagnosis, treatment, and prevention of cancer is oncology.
 
Cancer affects people at all ages with the risk for most types increasing with age. It caused about 13% of all human deaths  in 2007 (7.6 million).
 
Cancers are primarily an environmental disease with 90-95% of cases due to lifestyle and environmental factors and 5-10% due to genetics. Common environmental factors leading to cancer death include: tobacco (25-30%), diet and obesity (30-35%), infections (15-20%), radiation, stress, lack of physical activity, environmental pollutants. These environmental factors cause abnormalities in the genetic material of cells.
 
Some cancers can be caused by infection. This is especially true in animals such as birds but also in humans with viruses responsible for up to 20% of human cancers worldwide.
 
Greater than 30% of cancer is preventable via avoiding risk factors including: tobacco, overweight or obesity , low fruit and vegetable intake, physical inactivity, alcohol, sexually transmitted infection, air pollution. This can be accomplished by avoiding carcinogens or altering their metabolism, pursuing a lifestyle or diet that modifies cancer-causing factors and/or medical intervention.

Many movie makers used cancer as their central idea/ subject for their movie. After a long research work I able to get details of at least 28 movies. Following are the details of well known Cancer subject movies with proper reference link.

 
1) Love Story
Year – 1970
Director – Arthur Hiller
Country – USA
Language - English

 2) Anand
Year -1971
Director - Hrishikesh Mukherjee
Country - India
Language - Hindi

 
3) Brian's Song
Year – 1971
Director – Buzz Kulik
Country – USA
Language - English

 4) Sunshine
Year - 1973
Director - Joseph Sargent
Country - USA
Language - English

 
5) Ankhiyon Ke Jharokhon Se 
 Year - 1978
Director - Hiren Nag
 Country - India
Language - Hindi

 6) Dard Ka Rishta
Year - 1982
Director - Sunil Dutt
Country - India
Language - Hindi

 7) The Terry Fox Story
Year – 1983
Director – Ralph L. Thomas
Country – USA / Canada
Language - English

 
8) Terms of Enderments
Year – 1983
Director – James L. Brooks
Country - USA
Language - English

 9) Don't Tell Her It's Me
Year - 1990
Director - Malcolm Mowbray
Country - UK / USA
Language - English

 
10) The Doctor
Year – 1991
Director – Randa Haines
Country - USA
Language - English

11) Medicine Man
Year – 1992
Director – John McTiernan
Country - USA / Canada
Language - English

 

12) A Message from Holly
Year - 1992
Director - Rod Holcomb
Country - USA
Language - English

 
13) My Life
Year - 1993
Director: Bruce Joel Rubin
Country: USA
Language: English

 
14) My Breast
Year - 1994
Director - Betty Thomas
Country - USA
Language - English

 
15) Stepmom
Year - 1998
Director - Chris Columbus
Country - USA
Language - English

 16) Wit
Year – 2001
Director – Mike Nichols
Country – USA
Language - English
 
17) Life as a House
 Year - 2001
Director - Irwin Winkler
Country - USA
Language - English

 18) Sweet November
Year – 2001
Director – Pat O'Connor
Country - USA
Language - English

 
19) A Walk To Remember
Year – 2002
Director – Adam Shanlman
Country - USA
Language - English

 
20) My Life Without Me
Year – 2003
Director – Isabel Coixet
Country – Canada / Spain
Language - English

21) Shwaas
Year – 2004   
 Director - Sandeep Sawant
Country - India
Language - Marathi

 
22) The Bucket List
Year – 2007
Director – Rob Reiner
Country – USA
Language - English

 
23) Ghost Rider
Year – 2007
Director – Mark Steven Johnson
Country - USA / Canada
Language - English

 
24) Crazy Sexy Cancer
Director – Kris Carr
Year – 2007
Country - USA
Language - English

 
25) Living Proof
Year -   2008
Director - Dan Ireland
Country - USA
Language - English

 
26) My Sister's Keeper
Year – 2009
Director – Nick Cassavetes
Country - USA
Language - English

 
27) Fanboys
Year - 2009
Director – Kyle Newmen
Country - USA
Language - English

 
 28) Burzynski, The Movie
Year – 2010
Director – Eric Merola
Country - USA
Language - English

 



 
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