The big C . on Channel 4.

I don't have a problem with the humour but we are all different so to some it will be offensive.

I just think about all the things we have laughted about as i went through treatment and what chemo brain does to us. If I did not laugh then I dread to think where I would be so I hope we can all continue to live with cancer and not let it rule our lives.

john

Thought it may stir things up a bit ,'comedy'based around cancer doesn't bother me any more than any other topic,  when we stop laughing we start crying , and that time came soon enough.  I am honestly pleased that some of you found it entertaining we need that when we are affected in whatever  form . Interesting that they chose a type which as far as I know  from experience does not require radical surgery . While my wife was affected for 10 years we still found plenty to laugh at .Guess I just do not think much of American humour.  All the best to those of you affected, do keep smiling and yes, do keep smiling .

Would just like to point out that the best treatment for melanoma is surgical, an effective therapy is yet to be found and generally options are mostly at trial stage.

I've had several major surgeries and know of many patients that have had heart/lungs/liver/brain (I could go on) operated on to try and remove melanoma.

Just to add. I actually watched the pilot on catch up last night.  It wasn't offensive- I didn't think it was terribly tasteless either.  Cancer didn't really get much of a look in- it could have been any disease.  Some of the lines were, I don't know, they just hit you.  'I'm here everynight, performing on stage 4'  Some of the scenes were very poignant (like with the scan and she touches the spots).  I was prepared to hate it and for it to make me angry but it was better than a lot of the rubbish on tv just now.

I didn't find it offensive but I knew, by the very nature of the subject matter, that it would divide opinion and that's a good thing because, whilst people are talking about the programme they are talking about cancer & how it effects people's lives differently.

Personally I'm glad it's about melanoma because that's what I suffer from & any press coverage has to better than none. Very little is known about melanoma unless you or a loved one has been touched by it. Wilijon proves this in his comment about it not 'requiring radical surgery'. It's not Wilijon's fault that he is blissfully unaware of the seriousness of melanoma because it doesn't get the same media coverage as other cancers. I sympathise with Wilijon's recent loss, however melanoma has a much lower survival rate than breast & most other cancers & radical surgery is the only thing keeping me from an early appointment with the undertaker! At the age of 52 having a 15in scar across my stomach, groin & upper leg is a little more radical than I expected for metastasised melanoma. So if this programme can educate a few more people about the disease, tasteless script or not, then I say 'Bring It On'.