RogertEbert.com Review of Audrey’s Children

No one has been able to escape being touched by that most terrifying of words: cancer. Every family has experienced the fear, pain, and loss that accompany what Dr. Siddhartha Mukherjee called “the emperor of all maladies.” It is such a devastating diagnosis that we sometimes forget how much progress has been made in just the last few decades. The 2013 film “Decoding Annie Parker” starred Helen Hunt as Mary-Claire King, the Canadian doctor who discovered the genetic link that vastly improved the ability to predict which women were most likely to develop breast cancer. And “Audrey’s Children” reminds us that as recently as the late 1960s, the survival rate for children with cancer was just 10 percent compared to almost 90 percent today. It is the story of Dr. Audrey Evans (Natalie Dormer), whose accomplishments in diagnosis, treatment, and support for young patients and their families could fill at least three movies…..