Bridget is an A-grade student and star of the school soccer team...But since her mum got breast cancer she just doesn't seem to care. She stays in bed all day and doesn't have any energy. All of Bridget's successes seem empty without her mum's support.

Luckily the Medikidz, a group of super-powered action-heroes with attitude, are on-hand to help Bridget get to grips with what's going on! Pump, Chi, Skinderella, Gastro, Axon and their trusty robot Abacus each have their own distinctive abilities and characters to ensure that their particular brand of edutainment is always both banter-driven and medically accurate.

Join Bridget as the Medikidz take her on a whistle-stop tour of Mediland - a distant planet whose geography and inhabitants bear a striking similarity to the intricacies of the human body. Along the way she'll learn all about how badly-behaving lobule and duct cells stop other cells from doing their job properly and can trigger cancer. The superheroes will also thoroughly explain how badly-behaving cells can be removed and what doctors can do to stop them from returning. Bridget comes to understand the basic facts about her mum's condition and appreciates what she is going through.

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