SciShow
Chemo Sucks. Science Is Changing That
We use chemotherapy because it works, but no one has ever come home from chemo treatment and gone "That was fun!" Let's look at the new targeted therapies and personalized treatments for cancer that doctors are developing for clinical use.
SciShow
Jimmy Carters Cancer Cure
In August 2015, Jimmy Carter announced that he had a form of cancer that spread to his liver and brain. A few months later he reported the cancer was gone. How?
SciShow
The Secret to Becoming Immune to Mosquito Bites
Like most allergies, you can become immune to mosquito bites, but it might not be worth it.
SciShow
How We Could Beat Childhood Peanut Allergies | SciShow News
More and more kids are avoiding peanut butter due to life threatening allergies, but we could make it so that no kid goes without a PBJ
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...
Next Animation Studio
2018 Nobel Prize for Medicine awarded to duo's work on cancer immunotherapy
The 2018 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine was awarded to James P. Allison and Tasuku Honjo for their immunotherapy work in the fight against cancer.
The Wall Street Journal
Beating Cancer
At the 2020 WSJ Health Forum, Genetech CEO Alexander Hardy spoke with Health & Science Deputy Bureau Chief Jonathan D. Rockoff about big pharma, biotech and where the next big cancer breakthrough may come from.
STAT
Searching for the right clinical trial
Rachel Lefebvre has stage 4 colon cancer and is searching for an immunotherapy treatment that will combat her tumors.
Next Animation Studio
Woman's advanced stage breast cancer eradicated with immunotherapy
A woman's advanced stage breast cancer that had spread to other parts of her body was cured using immunotherapy.
Globalive Media
Beyond Innovation: Episode 21
An algorithm becomes a book critic, a robot imitates a fruit fly and a startup pioneers a new way to fight cancer. Plus, Michael and Anthony speak with prolific inventor Nathan Myhrvold about metamaterials that possess strange yet useful...
Press Association
'Exciting' mRNA jab for melanoma being tested in British patients
The world's first mRNA jab to cure melanoma - which also has the potential to stop lung, bladder and kidney cancer - is being tested in British patients.
The anti-cancer jab is custom-built for each person in as little as eight weeks...
Curated Video
Vaccine being developed to fight tumors in liver cancer patients
The "personalized" vaccine, when given with another cancer treatment, is showing promising results in shrinking tumors.
Sophia Learning
Sophia: Immunotherapy: Lesson 1
This lesson will examine what immunotherapy is and how it is used in the medical field today. It is 1 of 6 in the series titled "Immunotherapy."
Sophia Learning
Sophia: Organ Transplant and Immunotherapy
This lesson will investigate why a persons body might either accept or reject a transplanted tissue or organ. It is 1 of 2 similar lessons.