New Lifetime Network Movie About Breast Cancer Research

Lifetime Network premiered a new movie about Breast Cancer research called Living Proof Saturday evening. Starring Harry Connick Jr and Amanda Bynes, Living Proof is the story of Dr Dennis Slamon's fight for FDA approval of his experimental, genetically engineered drug Herceptin. Pat and I enjoyed the film. True, it was a bit simplistic, and Pat thought overly dramatic. A Los Angeles Times review this weekend was not as kind. That writer thought that it was a bad movie. Still, it can't be easy to produce a film about the struggle to raise funds and keep cancer research hopes alive. Interesting to us as cancer survivors. I'm not sure how others would feel or if the film would hold their interest. Considering the difficult economic reality that the country is facing, Pat and I can't help wondering if cancer research won't be negatively effected by our bad economy. The struggle to obtain funding for Dr Slamon's research portrayed in the film may be especially relevant today. I'm sure that Lifetime will re-play the film a number of times over the next few months, so watch it if you get a chance. Feel good and keep smiling- Pattie