CANCER/EVOLUTION Episode 1: The Dustbin of History
The newest hope for cancer is actually one of the oldest.
Buried for a century, the metabolic theory of cancer is overturning entrenched dogma and reshaping the future of cancer treatment.
Episode 1 of this 5-part docuseries addresses the history of the metabolic theory of cancer through the story of Nobel laureate Otto Warburg, a gay, Jewish scientist under aegis of the Nazis.
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Maggie JonesDirector
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Brad JonesDirectorDirector: Wal-Mart: The High Cost of Low Price - Behind the Scenes (2005), Producer: Jersey Shore S6.E6 (2012) Supervising Editor Jersey Shore (2012) Editor: Snooki & JWoww (2012-2015), Taboo USA (2013), January Man (2013), The Pauly D Project (2012), Too Fat for 15: The Obesity Crisis (2011), 30 Seconds to Stardom: Commercials' Most Famous Faces (2011), E! True Hollywood Stories: Bethenny Frenkel (2011), Bizarre and Mysterious Celebrity Deaths (2010), Extreme Close Up (2010), The Dish (2009), Sports Soup (2008-2009), Wal-Mart: The High Cost of Low Price - Behind the Scenes (2005), The N Word (2004), Running on Indian Time (2002)
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Maggie JonesProducer
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Brad JonesProducerDirector: Wal-Mart: The High Cost of Low Price - Behind the Scenes (2005), Producer: Jersey Shore S6.E6 (2012) Supervising Editor Jersey Shore (2012) Editor: Snooki & JWoww (2012-2015), Taboo USA (2013), January Man (2013), The Pauly D Project (2012), Too Fat for 15: The Obesity Crisis (2011), 30 Seconds to Stardom: Commercials' Most Famous Faces (2011), E! True Hollywood Stories: Bethenny Frenkel (2011), Bizarre and Mysterious Celebrity Deaths (2010), Extreme Close Up (2010), The Dish (2009), Sports Soup (2008-2009), Wal-Mart: The High Cost of Low Price - Behind the Scenes (2005), The N Word (2004), Running on Indian Time (2002)
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Brad JonesWriterDirector: Wal-Mart: The High Cost of Low Price - Behind the Scenes (2005), Producer: Jersey Shore S6.E6 (2012) Supervising Editor Jersey Shore (2012) Editor: Snooki & JWoww (2012-2015), Taboo USA (2013), January Man (2013), The Pauly D Project (2012), Too Fat for 15: The Obesity Crisis (2011), 30 Seconds to Stardom: Commercials' Most Famous Faces (2011), E! True Hollywood Stories: Bethenny Frenkel (2011), Bizarre and Mysterious Celebrity Deaths (2010), Extreme Close Up (2010), The Dish (2009), Sports Soup (2008-2009), Wal-Mart: The High Cost of Low Price - Behind the Scenes (2005), The N Word (2004), Running on Indian Time (2002)
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Robert WeinbergKey Cast
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Jason FungKey Cast
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Travis ChristoffersonKey Cast
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Nasha WintersKey Cast
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Angela PoffKey Cast
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Sam AppleKey Cast
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Thomas SeyfriedKey Cast
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Project Type:Documentary, Television, Web / New Media
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Genres:Science, Docuseries, medicine, biography, episodic, cancer
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Runtime:59 minutes 59 seconds
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Completion Date:December 15, 2022
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Production Budget:190,000 USD
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Country of Origin:United States
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Country of Filming:Canada, United States
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Language:English
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Shooting Format:6k Digital
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Aspect Ratio:16:9
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Film Color:Color
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First-time Filmmaker:Yes
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Student Project:No
MAGGIE JONES, Director & Executive Producer
Maggie Jones has over 20 years of media experience, most recently as Vice President of Newsroom Systems for South China Morning Post and Vice President of Product for Tribune Publishing and the Los Angeles Times.
She is a stage 4 cancer thriver who credits metabolic therapies, along with conventional treatment, with miraculously prolonging her life. She now dedicates herself to raising awareness of metabolic therapies.
https://www.linkedin.com/in/mjhk/ | https://cancerV.me
BRAD JONES, Director, Executive Producer, Writer & Editor
Brad Jones has over 20 years of experience and has worked on everything from a Peabody Award-winning documentary to the highest-rated shows ever on MTV and CMT.
https://brad.joneslabs.com/ | https://www.imdb.com/name/nm1129454/
One month after my 40th birthday I was diagnosed with terminal, stage 4 lung cancer that had spread to my left eye, my liver, a dozen lymph nodes throughout my chest, neck and abdomen, and four tumors in my brain. My prognosis of six to eight months with conventional treatment seemed optimistic. My doctors were focused on making me comfortable. I was dying.
One year later I was cancer free.
In that intervening year I devoted myself to studying the metabolic theory of cancer and researching the cutting-edge, evidence-based therapies that are just now being published. I contacted the heads of promising studies and was a nagging voice in their email inbox. I attended scientific conferences and met with the doctors and scientists who are shifting the cancer paradigm. I'm proud to now consider them my friends and am deeply grateful for their participation in this film.
When I finally achieved no evidence of disease, coloring my overwhelming joy was burning anger that so few people are aware of these published, lifesaving treatments -- including most oncologists. It's not their fault. Current metabolic therapies involve lifestyle treatments that can't be patented and inexpensive, off-label drugs whose patents have already expired. There are no cute pharmaceutical reps to evangelize them to doctors or conglomerates paying for slick TV ads with terrifying disclaimers. Instead, there is study after study quietly published in journals some doctors probably haven't read since medical school.
Unfortunately, even the doctors who are aware of this research are unable to recommend therapies that aren't FDA approved "standard of care" without risks to their practice. And, new therapies cannot become standard of care without hundreds of millions of dollars worth of trials. Trials that are not even considered unless there's a chance of recouping the millions spent.
I recognize that I am incredibly privileged to have the background, education and interest that allowed me to wade through oceans of research to find this largely unknown, evidence-based approach to cancer that saved my life.
Survival should not be reserved for the privileged.