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List Price: $19.94 | | Label: Sony Pictures
Salesrank: 17881
Released: May 5, 2009 |
| Our Price: $9.14 |
| Used Price: $2.96 |
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MPAA Rating: NR (Not Rated)
Media: DVD |
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Editorial Review:
Top-rated Lifetime movie! Dr. Dennis Slamon has reached a breakthrough in his career. He has helped to develop a new experimental drug called Herceptin, which he hopes will become a revolutionary treatment in the fight against breast cancer. However, when funding for his project is cut, Slamon must turn to philanthropists Lilly Tartikoff and Ron Perelman to help make his life's most important work a reality. With the backing of his new supporters, Slamon continues to perfect his treatment, but his new drug proves that while it has the ability to give life, it does not work for everyone. This gut-wrenching true story explores one doctor's difficult struggle to find a cancer treatment that can save thousands of lives while giving meaning to his own life.
Living Proof Reviews:
Im here today because of Herceptin 
2009-11-22 - I loved this movie. I saw it on Lifetime about a month after I was diagnosed with a recurrence of breast cancer after being cancer free for 11 years. I knew about Herceptin from family and friends that have been on it. I know first hand that it can extend your life. The Drs didnt think I would be here now but it is almost 18 months since my diagnosis of the recurrence and I am doing pretty well. I am thankful for the research being done to extend our lives. I have a 7 year old daughter to raise so its very important I do all I can. The movie was very well done.
Thanks so much to Lifetime for letting more people know about Herceptin and the fight to get it approved so we can fight!!!!!
The dumbest movie ever! 
2009-10-29 - So contrived and poorly written and editted this has to be a joke!! What a waste of time watching it - thank goodness I didn't buy it but only borrowed it from the library. I was expecting so much more but certainly didn't receive it. Poor acting, poor story line - too bad such a great story was done so badly!
Amazing Story
2009-10-23 - I'm a nurse working in the field with Breast Cancer patients. This story was amazing. It demonstrates how hard it is to get new drugs out on the market. It made me appreciate what we have accomplished in medicine. I loved seeing the end results! To see patients getting well and surviving. The reasons we do what we do. WOW!
True story
2009-09-12 - Herceptin saved my life. This movie documents big Rx company letting 140,000 women die because the profit margin was low. Money is more important than lives.
Review of movie "Living Proof"
2009-09-05 - I am currently receiving Hercepton for HR2+ breast cancer. I had no idea how important the IV medication is until I saw this movie. I believe it should be watched by everyone receiving Hercepton and their families and love ones. Harry Connick, Jr. was great as were the women in the movie. My friend said she cried when she watched it with her daughter. I cried and cried, for about a half hour after the movie was over, because for the first time I realized how lucky and blessed I am to live in a time when this medication is available. This is not fiction. It is a dramatization of real events. It also makes you aware of how important medication trials are and how brave the participants are. I purchased 3 copies to be certain all my loved ones watched.
