The world stands on the edge of a flu pandemic, according to the world’s leading experts. The results, they predict, will be catastrophic. Millions of deaths, economies and civil society in chaos, political life undermined or destroyed. A doomsday scenario! Such outbreaks happen two or three times every hundred years. We are due one now—and the avian flu strain H5N1 is the most likely candidate for a future pandemic. The last catastrophic flu...

When breast cancer is diagnosed, there are many treatment options to consider. It's important for a patient to take time to consider what the best course of action is. In Part 3, learn what the options are.

While any type of cancer takes an emotional toll on a patient who has it, prostate cancer typically involves a man's partner's quality of life as well. Support groups can help both men and women deal with this type of cancer. Learn more in Part 4.

Part 1 looks at the substantial number of lives that can be saved through simple screening and cancer awareness. The program features interviews from expert physicians from Memorial Sloan-Kettering, the University of San Francisco, and the Jay Monahan Gastroenterological Center at the Weill Medical College. Learn more about how to prevent colon cancer and what you can do if you are diagnosed with it.

Robotic surgery is transforming modern medicine. Large movements of the surgeons hands in the operating theater translate into very small movements of the robotic instruments. It is less tiring for the surgeons and for the patient, it means less scarring, a quicker recovery, and reduced risk of infection. It is cutting edge medicine. Robotic arms – including a powerful camera – are slid into the patient through small incisions. At the end of the...

More than a third of us will get cancer in our lifetime and a quarter of us will die from it; it is Canada's number one killer. Extensive research, guided by experts and improved technologies, has significantly increased our understanding of cancer and how it works over the past ten years. This film looks at the principal theories and hypotheses that are revolutionizing our knowledge of this disease. We meet Guy, Agathe, Claude and Denis, four patients...

PBS NewsHour correspondent Betty Ann Bowser talks to Siddhartha Mukherjee, author of "The Emperor of All Maladies: A Biography of Cancer," a history of the search for ways to treat cancer and how it has been perceived.

People who smoke or use tobacco are at risk of developing throat cancer or malignant tumors of the vocal chords. Excessive alcohol use also increases risk. Most cancers of the throat or larynx develop in adults older than 50, and men are ten times more likely than women to develop them.

Treatments for prostate cancer come with a range of side effects like impotence, incontinence, and sometimes rectal bleeding. In this video clip, meet Gary O'Shea, who was diagnosed with prostate cancer and had to make the difficult decision about what to do next. Fearing the side effects, he declined treatment all together, and instead chose the procedure that is free of any side effects: active surveillance or "deferred therapy.

There're a host of reasons, medical and social, for why women delay childbirth. As their biological clocks tick, medical researchers work harder to buy time. In this video segment, find out how they are tweaking techniques to improve the odds that a woman who has her eggs removed and frozen will bear healthy children from them years later.