Cancer is a diagnosis feared by many, its treatment understood by few. As an uninvited life guest, cancer unsettles daily routines, strains relationships, and shifts one’s sense of self.  The treatment of adolescent cancer is particularly daunting. While their peers are choosing between soccer and band camp, teens with cancer are coping with the side-effects of chemotherapy drugs and surgical procedures. The Art of the Possible invites audiences into the worlds of five families living with cancer, its treatment, and what remains in the aftermath. At once humorous and haunting, producers Hayward and Harter present a narrative portrayal of families trying to create “a new normal” in the midst of cancer, and the care providers that serve them. The Art of the Possible offers the public and medical community-at-large a glimpse of cancer care that couples conventional therapies with humanizing communication practices. 

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