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Breaking Bad(2008-2013)

TV-MA
| Drama, Crime
4.5/5 (with 6,525 votes)

When Walter White, a New Mexico chemistry teacher, is diagnosed with Stage III cancer and given a prognosis of only two years left to live. He becomes filled with a sense of fearlessness and an unrelenting desire to secure his family's financial future at any cost as he enters the dangerous world of drugs and crime.

Directed by Vince Gilligan, Adam Bernstein, Jim McKay, Tricia Brock, Bronwen Hughes, Tim Hunter, ... - With Anna Gunn, Aaron Paul, Dean Norris, Betsy Brandt, RJ Mitte, Jonathan Banks, ...
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The Big C(2010-2013)

TV-MA
| 27min per episode | Comedy, Drama
3.6/5 (with 43 votes)

A suburban mother faces her cancer diagnosis while trying to find humor and happiness as well.

With Laura Linney, Oliver Platt, John Benjamin Hickey, Gabriel Basso, Phyllis Somerville, Gabourey Sidibe, ...

The Summer I Turned Pretty(2022-)

TV-MA
| 45min per episode | Drama
4.1/5 (with 281 votes)

Every summer, Belly and her family head to the Fishers’ beach house in Cousins. Every summer is the same ... until Belly turns sixteen. Relationships will be tested, painful truths will be revealed, and Belly will be forever changed. It’s a summer of first love, first heartbreak and growing up — it's the summer she turns pretty.

Directed by Jesse Peretz - With Rachel Blanchard, Gavin Casalegno, Alfredo Narciso, Colin Ferguson, Tom Everett Scott, Christopher Briney, ...

Chasing Life(2014-2015)

TV-14
| 1h per episode | Drama, Kids & Family
3.7/5 (with 25 votes)

April, an aspiring journalist, is balancing her ambitious career with her family and a new office romance. In an unexpected twist of fate, April learns that she has leukemia.

Directed by Norman Buckley, Steve Miner - With Italia Ricci, Mary Page Keller, Haley Ramm, Scott Michael Foster, Steven Weber, Karl T. Wright, ...

Alexa & Katie(2018-2020)

TV-Y7
| 25min per episode | Comedy
4.1/5 (with 90 votes)

Lifelong best friends Alexa and Katie are eagerly anticipating the start of their freshman year of high school. The pals confront a crisis that leaves them feeling like outsiders at a time when what seems to matter most is fitting in.

Subscription Netflix

Uncontrollably Fond(2016)

1h per episode | Drama
3.6/5 (with 34 votes)

The memory of their painful breakup still fresh in their minds, two former lovers reunite years later as a top actor and a documentary producer.

With Kim Woo-bin, Bae Suzy, Lim Ju-hwan, Lim Ju-eun

Side Order of Life(2007)

1h per episode | Drama
4.3/5 (with 1 vote)

Side Order of Life is a dramatic television series broadcast by Lifetime on Sunday night. In its first five weeks it aired at 8:00pm ET/PT, then switched to the 9:00pm time slot. Marisa Coughlan plays Jenny McIntyre, a photographer who reconsiders her life and is reawakened to her options after her best friend, Vivy Porter, is diagnosed with a recurrence of cancer. Jason Priestley returns to regular series television as Ian Denison, Jenny's fiancé. Christopher Gartin rounds out the main case as Jenny's boss Rick Purdy at the fictional In Person magazine; he is in love with Vivy, who has rejected him. Lifetime broadcast Side Order of Life with State of Mind and Army Wives in an effort to offer a night of new original programming aimed primarily at female viewers during the summer hiatus. Side Order of Life premiered on Lifetime on July 15, 2007. Initial reviews were positive, with Variety.com's Brian Lowry saying, "writer-producer Margaret Nagle brings a level of wit to the proceedings superior to most chick-lit-inspired TV drama." The Seattle Times, after describing the premise, said, "If this all sounds kind of corny, well, it kind of is until you realize the story line hits its mark, making you recall your own missteps and regrets for not having taken better charge."

With Marisa Coughlan, Diana-Maria Riva, Christopher Gartin, Jason Priestley

Life Sentence(2018)

TV-14
| 42min per episode | Drama, Comedy
3.2/5 (with 29 votes)

When Stella finds out her terminal cancer is cured, she's going to have to learn to live with all the choices she's made when she decided to "live like she was dying".

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Jenny(2017-)

15min per episode | Drama, Kids & Family

A journey into the heart of a 13-year-old girl diagnosed with leukemia. Far from being overwhelmed, she discovers rather an impressive force of character that helps her fight her illness.

Directed by Jean-Sébastien Lord - With Émilie Bierre, Patrice Godin

The Checkup with Dr. David Agus(2022-)

TV-14
| 32min per episode | Documentary
4.0/5 (with 1 vote)

A-list celebrities share their personal health issues in a series of intimate conversations with Dr. David Agus, a world-renowned medical authority and cancer specialist. With their deeply honest and thoughtful conversations serving as the narrative spine of the show, Dr. Agus will take viewers on an eye-opening and inspirational journey that sheds new light on the most important medical topics from today’s headlines. Full of personal revelations, cutting-edge breakthroughs, game-changing technologies and accessible take-aways, The Checkup with Dr. David Agus will not only change lives, it will save lives.

Amor Fati(2021-)

35min per episode | Drama
2.5/5 (with 1 vote)

A divorcee with cancer and a penniless single father meet and heal their wounds with the help of each other. Do Yeon-Hee (Choi Jung-Yoon) is the only daughter-in-law of a family, who runs the Rara Group. She has a perfect life, but her husband cheats on her. Due to the other woman, Do Yeon-Hee’s life changes completely. Han Jae-Kyeong (Ahn Jae-Mo) used to be a professional golfer. To let his wife achieve her dream and support her while she studies abroad, he quit playing golf and became a golfing instructor at a practice facility. He raises his son by himself, while his wife is away. When his wife returns to South Korea, she asks him for a divorce.

Polseres vermelles(2011-2013)

NR
| 45min per episode | Drama
4.1/5 (with 11 votes)

Polseres vermelles and Pulseras Rojas in Spanish, is a Catalan television show. The first season aired on TV3 in 2011, with a second season planned for 2013. The show was created by Albert Espinosa and draws on his childhood experiences as a hospital patient. Espinosa and director-producer Pau Freixas had previously worked together on the film Herois. The show tells the story of a group of Catalan children and teenagers who meet as patients in the children's wing of a hospital. Themes include friendship, the will to live, and the desire to overcome adversity. The show was originally planned for four seasons, with the second one premiering on January 2013. In October 2011, it was announced that Steven Spielberg's DreamWorks and Marta Kauffman had reached an agreement with TV3 for an American remake of Polseres Vermelles. The Spanish channel Antena 3 aired the first season, dubbed into Spanish as Pulseras rojas, in summer 2012. On 11 December 2012, TV3 announced 14 January 2013 as the premiere date for its second season. Antena 3 will premiere it dubbed later in 2013.

Directed by Pau Freixas, Oriol Ferrer Ferrer, Marta Pahissa, Patricia Font - With Joana Vilapuig, Àlex Monner, Mikel Iglesias, Marta Angelat, Nil Cardoner, Andreu Rifé i Oro, ...
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Dear My Friends(2016)

TV-MA
| 1h 9min per episode | Comedy, Drama
3.6/5 (with 5 votes)

Life is ever-delightful — and ever-challenging — for a group of friends in their twilight years as they rediscover themselves through love and family.

With Go Hyeon-jeong
Subscription Netflix

This Life(2015-)

43min per episode | Drama
2.4/5 (with 3 votes)

Set in contemporary Montreal, “This Life” is a family saga focusing on Natalie Lawson, an accomplished columnist and single mother in her early forties whose terminal cancer diagnosis sends her on a quest to prepare her teenage children for life without her. Her tight-knit family – sister, two brothers and parents – do the best they can to help her, while coping with their own responses to this revelation.

With Torri Higginson

The Girls at the Back(2022)

TV-MA
| 45min per episode | Drama, Comedy
4.0/5 (with 21 votes)

Five women in their 30s, friends since their school days, go on their annual getaway. But this year, one of them has just been diagnosed with cancer.

Directed by Daniel Sánchez Arévalo - With Itsaso Arana, Mónica Miranda, Maria Rodríguez Soto, Mariona Terés, Godeliv Van den Brandt, Macarena García, ...
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Sick(2021-)

20min per episode | Comedy, Drama
2.0/5 (with 1 vote)

26-year-old Alice has been through the impossible, an absolute one in a million scenario (or okay type over 70% chance of survival but still): SHE HAS SURVIVED CANCER! Too bad she got rid of the job, dumped by her boyfriend and forced to move home to the family and start life again…

The Last Goodbye to Mama(2021)

45min per episode | Kids & Family
2.5/5 (with 1 vote)

A story of hope and despair surrounding the lives of a mother and son from a small town in Subei. The 18-year-old Ding Xiao Jun who lives with his mother Ding Bi Yun has been admitted to a university in Beijing. However, as soon as he entered university, he is ridiculed by his classmates. Ding Xiao Jun starts to rebel until he gets a warning that he will no longer graduate. Luckily, his mother gets through to him in time for him to pull himself together and earn enough credits to graduate.

Zac & Mia(2017-2019)

TV-14
| 12min per episode | Drama
3.5/5 (with 2 votes)

"Zac and Mia", based on the novel by A.J. Betts, about 2 teens battling cancer in the same hospital. In the real world, Zac and Mia would have pretty much nothing in common, but in the hospital, where they're the only 2 teens on the ward, they develop an unbreakable bond. If cancer is the variable that changed everything, the only constant is their ever-deepening need for one another.

With Anne Winters, Andrea Bogart, Tanner Stine

Super Daddy Yeol(2015)

1h 5min per episode | Comedy, Kids & Family, Romance / Love, Drama
2.7/5 (with 2 votes)

Cha Mi-rae is a doctor and single mother to her young daughter Sa-rang. When she gets diagnosed with terminal cancer and told she has one year left to live, she seeks out her ex-boyfriend Han Yeol, a former baseball player. Mi-rae and Yeol were a couple a decade ago, but she broke up with him to study abroad and because she didn't think much of his prospects. Soon after, a serious injury forced him to retire from the sport, and Yeol became the rehabilitation coach of a major league baseball team. Mi-rae is determined to transform still-single, grungy, irritable Yeol into the best father possible for her daughter.

The Oath of Love(2022)

45min per episode | Drama
3.0/5 (with 5 votes)

Lin Zhixiao's entire world is turned upside down just before graduation. Her father is hospitalized after being diagnosed with cancer which leaves her no choice but to give up an important job opportunity. She and her boyfriend also break up. In an instant, all of her hopes and dreams for the future are gone. At this time, Gu Wei, her father's attending physician, walks into Lin Zhixiao's life. Love has the tendency to creep up on you when you're not looking. Two people who have been hurt before gradually get to know each other and fall in love. They go through doubts and hit road bumps, they experience misunderstandings and trying times, but in the process of falling in love, they realize that they are made for each other.

Living Towards the Sun(2020-)

Drama
3.0/5 (with 1 vote)

It is based on the story of young cartoonist Xiong Dun who encounters double setbacks in love and the workplace. In the face of adversity, she bravely fights her illness and spreads positivity with her infectious smile. Xiang Yang is a carefree young woman who comes to Beijing to fulfill her dreams of becoming a manhua artist. After persuading her family and finally finding a job and a house, Xiong Dun settles down in Beijing. Life may be hard but Xiang Yang is surrounded by people that she loves. Unfortunately, life does not treat her kindly. Xiang Yang's boyfriend cheats on her and she experiences a setback in her career. Misfortunes come in threes as she starts to get sick. When her childhood friend forces her to go to the hospital for an examination, Xiang Yang learns that she has a tumor. From being unwilling and unable to accept her circumstances, Xiang Yang gradually finds the strength to live her life to the fullest.

Cancer: The Emperor of All Maladies(2015)

2h per episode | Documentary
3.9/5 (with 3 votes)

The documentary series aims to reshape the way the public sees cancer and strip away some of the fear and misunderstanding that has long surrounded it. The story of cancer is a story of human ingenuity, resilience, and perseverance but also of hubris, paternalism and misperception.

Directed by Ken Burns - With Siddhartha Mukherjee

4JIM(2015)

20min per episode | Soap / Telenovela, Drama

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If There Is No Tomorrow(2020)

45min per episode | Drama, Kids & Family
4.2/5 (with 6 votes)

If There Is No Tomorrow is a story for the underdogs about a man who tolerates as much as he can, yet things change when he discovers that he is terminal ill.

Nouvelle adresse(2014-2015)

44min per episode | Drama
4.0/5 (with 1 vote)

Nathalie Lapointe is in her early forties, a single mother of three with a successful career as columnist at a major newspaper. Just as she’s starting to think she might be able to pay more attention to her own needs, she gets terrible news: the cancer from which she recovered two years previously is back. How can she break the news to her kids? How can the family plan for the future with this sword of Damocles hanging over them? Despite the shock, life goes on. Nathalie must cope with evolving circumstances at the paper as well as at home. She wonders if she can allow herself to fall in love with her daughters’ school principal. As for her children, they must deal with their own teenage life challenges, all the while knowing that their mother may soon be gone. Nathalie’s best friend and neighbor is particularly hard-hit by the news: she’s already suffering from her husband’s infidelity and from the absence of her son, who is overseas. Nathalie’s misfortune also has a powerful effect on her three siblings. They must re-think their priorities at a time when all three are facing crucial choices in their emotional and professional lives. For Nathalie’s parents Janine and Gérard, her illness makes no sense. How do you face the very real possibility that your child will die before you?

Directed by Louise Archambault, Sophie Lorain, Rafaël Ouellet, Richard Blaimert

BET Her Presents: The Waiting Room(2019-)

TV-14
| 15min per episode | Drama

In these two short films we will follow the lives of two women in a doctor's waiting room as they await to hear if they have breast cancer. Each short story will follow their journey after receiving the life changing diagnosis. All stories are written and directed by black women.

Chemo Brain(2019-)

Drama, Comedy

When Oliver is diagnosed with testicular cancer, his life is turned upside down. This lighthearted drama-series depicts the derailment of a young man that is doing everything he can to not lose his friends, his girlfriend, himself, and ultimately his life.

Hatsukoi(2012)

50min per episode | Drama

Midori is a married woman with a happy home life, a child, and a job as a speech therapist. One day, Midori is diagnosed with liver cancer and finds herself face to face with her first love; a man whose betrayal had left her deeply scarred. They are forced to put their past aside and work together to save her life.

Who Died?(2021-)

24min per episode | Comedy, Drama
4.0/5 (with 1 vote)

Eran Levy thought his life couldn't get any worst... and then he was diagnosed with cancer. His life is about to change completely when he meets Michal, an experienced patient at the cancer ward. Together, they will fight the greatest battle for their lives. Only now, when death is nearby, Eran truly starts living. A romantic-comedy taking place at the cancer ward - full of optimism, love, and medical marijuana.

Directed by Yogev Yefet - With Ori Atia