Encore: After

We hear quite a bit about the experience of cancer treatment; the shocking diagnosis, the decisions, the side effects. But how much do we hear about after, when most people with cancer must adapt to a new world view, lasting lasting impacts and deep existential questions about death, and life? At a time when communities are celebrating, offering congratulations for being done the person at the center of it all feels anything but. Leanne Pooley was shocked to discover her new landscape after treatment and, being a documentary filmmaker and therefore used to speaking out and observing experience she began to look for ways to make sure the medical profession improved in their navigation of this most sensitive time.