Portland Center Stage is proud to be hosting a screening of Ann Murray-Paige’s documentary the The Breast Cancer Diaries, an “unfettered, unvarnished memoir of the year that changed one woman’s life.”

The screening starts at 7:30 pm on the Main Stage, and will be followed by a panel including breast cancer survivor Sandy Henderson, a group of breast cancer experts from OHSU, and the Executive Director of Susan G. Komen’s Race for the Cure.

What’s it about? Here’s what the press release has to say:

“For ten years, Ann Murray-Paige covered the news — but for the biggest story of her life she turned the camera on herself. When Murray-Paige, a former television reporter and anchor, learns she has breast cancer at age 38, she sets up a diary camera in her bedroom. Ann’s video diaries — raw and true — are punctuated with humor, poignancy and romance.

THE BREAST CANCER DIARIES is a chronicle of illness met with attitude, symbolized by the “Cancer Sucks” button that Ann pins on her shirt. Throughout it all there is humor — from a hospital flashing scene to a young son’s attempt to heal his mother with a whoopee cushion.”

Tickets to the screening are $20, and can be purchased right here.

See you tonight!