The Guardian
The Physical and Interpersonal Impacts of Chemotherapy
Victoria Mapplebeck continues documenting her cancer diagnosis and treatment. As a single parent, she worries about the impact her treatment and illness will have on her teenage son. She shares what it is like to start losing her hair...
The Guardian
Processing a Cancer Diagnosis
When Victoria Mapplebeck was diagnosed with breast cancer, she decided to record each step of her journey. In this clip, Victoria is receives the diagnosis and begins preparing for treatment. She and her son discuss how they are each...
Healthcare Triage
Cancer Research Spotlighted in Nobel Prize for Medicine
We've been talking a lot about the state of cancer research in the HCT Podcast, and now the Nobel prize in medicine is going to cancer researchers. So that's pretty cool. Check out some of the amazing (and amazingly expensive) treatments...
Healthcare Triage
Many Common Treatments Aren't Helpful
There are a surprising number of treatments that get accepted into mainstream care, and covered by insurance, despite the fact that there is little evidence that they work. There's even evidence that some of these treatments may be...
Barcroft Media
My Rare Dwarfism Makes Me 1 in 4 Million
A LOVEABLE 8-year-old boy has a form of dwarfism so rare he is believed to be one of only 28 cases in the world. Three-foot-tall Landen Johnson, from Lincolnton, North Carolina, has primordial dwarfism, one of the rarest forms of...
Barcroft Media
My Rare Dwarfism Makes Me 1 in 4 Million | BORN DIFFERENT
A LOVEABLE 8-year-old boy has a form of dwarfism so rare he is believed to be one of only 28 cases in the world. Three-foot-tall Landen Johnson, from Lincolnton, North Carolina, has primordial dwarfism, one of the rarest forms of...
Curated Video
Surviving Breast Cancer: A Love Story
Dana's Triumph part 2/4: This is a personal story of a woman named Dana who shares her experience with breast cancer at the age of 27. She talks about how her life changed after the diagnosis, her struggles during the treatment including...
Curated Video
Designing Bras for Women with Breast Reconstruction: The Story of Dana Donofree
Dana's Triumph part 3/4: The video features a woman who shares her experience of dealing with breast cancer and how it led her to create a business designing bras for women who have undergone breast reconstruction. She talks about the...
Next Animation Studio
Cancer stem cell theory supported by study
Scientists want to know why cancer cells sometimes return after chemotherapy has eradicated the tumor. One debated theory is that cancer has its own "stem cells". Three studies published in Nature and Science are in support of this...
Curated Video
Understanding Statistical Investigations: Observational Studies, Surveys, and Experiments
This video explains the differences between observational studies, surveys, and experiments in statistical investigations. It provides examples and highlights key components of each type of investigation. It also discusses the...
Healthcare Triage
Biologic Drugs and Biosimilars
What are biologic drugs? What about biosimilars? In a previous video we compared brand name and generic drugs. But we kind of left out a major player in the world of medicines; biologic drugs. These complicated little guys probably...
Healthcare Triage
The Caregiver Gap
The US healthcare system has a huge gap. A lot of care giving isn't covered, and it falls on families and friends to pick up the slack. It can take a lot of time and help to make it through an illness, and there isn't much coverage for...
HealthSketch
What is Cancer?
A simple explainer video about cancer, a group of conditions that will affect most of us or our loved ones at some point in our lives. We explain what cancer is, how and why it occurs, and how it is detected and treated. We hope this...
Press Association
Woman ‘almost died’ trying to cure cancer with juice diet
A woman who almost died trying to cure her cancer with a juice diet has warned others against “cutting out” traditional medical advice and trying to source alternative information online. Medics tried to get Irena Stoynova to use...
Curated Video
Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez sang, danced and said he intends to stay in power for two more decades as he celebrated his 57th birthday looking ahead to months of cancer treatment.
HEADLINE: Raw Video: Venezuela''s Chavez celebrates 57th birthday
CAPTION: Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez sang, danced and said he intends to stay in power for two more decades as he celebrated his 57th birthday looking ahead to months...
Curated Video
Cancer conference discuss treatments
Barcelona, September 24, 2007
1. Various shots of Laurent Cohen walking steps down
2. Various shots of Laurent Cohen at his desk
3. SOUNDBITE: (French) Laurent Cohen, Cancer Survivor
"I never had doubts that I was going to win this...
Curated Video
Online Cancer Reporting Tool May Save Lives
JAMES SYLVESTER HAS COLON CANCER, BUT HIS CHANCES OF A LONGER SURVIVAL AND A BETTER QUALITY OF LIFE ARE BEING ENHANCED THANKS TO AN APP.SYLVESTER USES HIS PHONE TO REPORT ANY SIDE EFFECTS OF TREATMENT HE EXPERIENCES IN BETWEEN DOCTOR...
Curated Video
USA: SCIENTISTS HOPEFUL OF NEW CANCER TREATMENT
English/Nat
Scientists in the U-S are hopeful they have discovered a treatment which - if proven successful in human trials - could kill cancer cells without harming healthy cells around them.
A scientific team at the University of...
Curated Video
Nanoknife treatment for cancer patients
An experimental procedure is being used on cancer patients who have exhausted all conventional forms of treatment.
The Nanoknife uses electricity to help destroy cancer in soft tissue, without harming other organs.
The procedure is...
Curated Video
A year after a New York couple donated their 15-year-old son's organs, they learned the teen actually had a rare form of cancer and two of the four transplant recipients have died.
Teen organ donor's gift turns tragic
A year after a New York couple donated their 15-year-old son's organs, they learned the teen actually had a rare form of cancer and two of the four transplant recipients have died. (April...
Curated Video
Doctors describe possible second HIV cure
A London man appears to be free of the virus that causes AIDS after a stem cell transplant, the second success including the "Berlin patient," doctors reported.
Curated Video
Israeli PM being treated for prostate cancer
1. Journalists waiting for news conference to start
2. Wide of news conference with official
3. SOUNDBITE: (Hebrew) Ehud Olmert Israeli Prime Minister:
"Upon my return from a working visit to Russia ten days ago I had a medical exam...