A Lion in the House Trailer Video

CDC partnered with Community Media Productions to produce and present the documentary A Lion in the House. It offers an unprecedented look at the cancer journey of five young people and their families over a 6-year period.

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Video Transcript

Narrator: "A Lion in the House is a story of five American families facing the challenge of childhood cancer. Told across six years, A Lion in the House follows each family's fight, beginning with the doctor's words, 'Your child has cancer.'"

Regina: "I thought I couldn't do it. I couldn't do it. No."

Beth: "To draw the heparin and syringe—I had problems with that. I mean, my hands were shaking."

Narrator: "We move through treatment, relapse, loss, recovery, and the reclaiming of a life."

Scott: "When I think back to the whole thing, how did we do that? How did we take care of things here at home? How did we survive that?"

Narrator: "This intimate series is a complex portrait of human resilience, the bonds of family, and how we as a nation take care of each other."

Connie: "I'll tell you right now, Tim won't entertain the idea of hospice. He won't entertain the idea of DNR because he thinks that's giving up. So Mom's not going to entertain them because she's not going to give up on Tim because Tim doesn't want to quit."

Susan: "The doctor asked that question again: 'What do you want done?'"

Dale: "We weren't there just to make him comfortable. We were there to save our kid. It was a commitment to him to do everything possible."

Regina: "In my life I've always been sheltered by my mother and my stepfather, and this was something that my mother couldn't change or take away from me. So it made me stronger."

Al: "It made her stronger and me wiser."

Regina: "You can do anything when it comes to your child. Anything."