Life on the Faultline

5 Episodes
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By: Sue Lancaster

A down-to-earth series featuring candid insights from the cancer journeys of New Zealanders. It aims to help friends and family understand how they can help or hinder the journey, the emotional rollercoaster that is cancer and the decisions that need to be traversed. It will also resonate with those faced with the Big C, and provides honest feedback for our medical profession.

2. To Know Or Not To Know
#2
04/06/2025

With our ability now to find out more about what health issues might befall us, is knowing always a good idea? This episode is about the advantages and disadvantages of knowing you've got, or are likely to get, an illness that will have serious consequences.


3. Hard Conversations
#3
04/06/2025

How people in this series found out about their cancer diagnosis from the health sector; what went well and what could have been improved, as well as some tips for the ongoing relationship. 


4. To Tell Or Not To Tell
#4
04/06/2025

Who the participants in this series told about their health diagnosis; when and why.


5. To Choose Or Not To Choose
#5
04/06/2025

Navigating dying or the thought of it for those with a terminal illness, including views on medically assisted dying.


1. Run Towards Or Run Away
#1
04/03/2025

How people reacted when they found out a family member or friend had cancer, including advice on how the participants in this series would have liked them to react.