Curated Video
Blood test may help predict which breast cancers will recur
LEADIN:
Doctors say a simple blood test is able to identify women who are more likely to have a recurrence of breast cancer.
A large US study shows the tests, called liquid biopsies, may someday reveal which...
Curated Video
How Does Cancer Work In The Body?
To continuously multiply, your cells have to divide. When they do that they copy your genes — all 3 billion letters of your genetic code.
Curated Video
New Breast Cancer Treatment Could Be A Game Changer
Right now, the five-year survival rate for people with metastatic breast cancer is just 27%. But ErSO eliminated cancer in mice in just seven days.
Bozeman Science
What is Cancer?
This year, an estimated 1,685,210 new cases of cancer will be diagnosed in the United States, and 595,690 people will die from the disease. Learners define cancer, see how and why it grows in the body, how doctors can treat it, and what...
TED-Ed
How Bones Make Blood
Bones are blood cell factories. Viewers learn all about bone marrow and how blood cells produced in the marrow of a donor can be grafted into a cancer patient to fight the disease.
TED-Ed
Hacking Bacteria to Fight Cancer
The research being done in the field of synthetic biology holds tremendous possibilities for cancer patients. Here is a short video that details how synthetic biologists are learning how to program bacteria to attack tumors.
Howard Hughes Medical Institute
VEGF
Have you ever wondered what causes tumors to grow? VEGF is a very important factor because it is a hormone that causes blood vessels to grow and is triggered by cancer cells to increase blood supply to a tumor. Viewers learn about the...
Howard Hughes Medical Institute
Angiogenesis
How do cancer cells grow? With the right resources, the uncontrolled growth of cancer cells into tumors sometimes happens rapidly. The cancer then metastasizes to other areas of the body. The informative video helps scholars discover...
Howard Hughes Medical Institute
Cancer and Cell Fate in the Intestinal Epithelium
What happens when intestinal epithelia receive the wrong directions during differentiation? Discover how tumors form in the intestinal lining using a narrated video. The resource shows both normal and cancerous growth using specially...
Howard Hughes Medical Institute
Hhmi: Bio Interactive: How Tumors Grow
An excellent BioInteractive animation describing factors related to the growth of tumors with audio and text support. Strong supporting material for teachers and students.