Teen Cancer Ward

Teen Cancer Ward

A highly poignant and powerful documentary about life at The Queen Elizabeth Hospital's Young Person's Unit, featuring honest, intimate stories of the teenagers fighting this deadly disease.

Rebecca is an eighteen-year-old student who has just been diagnosed with bone cancer; twenty-four-year old Adam's cancer has returned three times in the past nine years, and his internal organs are suffering from the chemotherapy he has endured over the years; 16-year-old Alex, who thought he had a career as a break-dancer, is facing an operation for his bone cancer which may drastically alter his life forever.

All of them are under the care of ward sister Nicky Pettitt, who's looked after hundreds of teenage patients as they go through some of the best and worst experiences of their lives - from being told they're going to get better to facing the uncertainty of survival and even death. How do the teenagers and their friends and families cope with their life-threatening conditions?

With intimate access to the patients and medical staff, Teen Cancer Ward tells the poignant, inspirational stories of three young people thrust together at random by their life-threatening conditions.

Teen Cancer Ward
ABC2
Wednesday, 7 July 2010
9:30pm

Watch online: http://abc.net.au/iview