Understanding Prognosis: One Couple’s Creative Response

Vanessa Jensen, an artist, and her husband Roy discover how to support each other’s need for different kinds of information about the likely outcome of her advanced colorectal cancer. Questions about whether your cancer can be cured, what your odds of recovery may be, and cancer survival statistics are all questions about your cancer prognosis. Produced by the National Cancer Institute (NCI), this video is one of five in a series that includes a main overview video that you might want to view first (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LnfOHUBGf3A). To see the entire NCI Prognosis Video Series and to find other helpful information about how to understand your cancer prognosis and cancer survival statistics, go to http://www.cancer.gov/prognosis.