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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...
Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Mit: Blossoms: Making It Personal: Using Dna to Tailor Cancer Treatments
Students learn about the growth of cancer through an analogy of a kitchen with an appliance running out of control. Together, student learners investigate case studies of three patients with lung cancer and determine the cell mutation...
PBS
Nova: Cancer Warrior
This hour long, 8 part segment features new advances in cancer therapy and medication. Learn about these new treatments in this detailed series developed by NOVA.
Sophia Learning
Sophia: Cancer and Homeostasis: Lesson 1
This lesson will identify what causes cancer, how your immune system attempts to fight cancer and various treatments of cancer. This lesson will also investigate the affect cancer has on the body's ability to maintain homeostasis. It is...
Khan Academy
Khan Academy: Leukemia Treatment
There are three main solutions to treat leukemia: Chemotherapy, radiation, and bone marrow transplant. This video explains each type of treatment and when they are used. [5:55]