SciShow
Why Don't We Have Cancer-Sniffing Dogs?
There are a lot of stories out there about dogs who seemed to smell lung cancer on their owner’s breath, and a recent study found that some dogs can detect lung cancer in blood samples with astonishing accuracy. So why aren’t there...
Curated Video
How to detect the deadliest form of cancer
Lung cancer is the deadliest of cancers. Screening could save thousands of lives, so why is it not the norm?
TED Talks
Jack Andraka: A promising test for pancreatic cancer ... from a teenager
Over 85 percent of all pancreatic cancers are diagnosed late, when someone has less than two percent chance of survival. How could this be? Jack Andraka talks about how he developed a promising early detection test for pancreatic cancer...
Bozeman Science
What is Cancer?
In this video Paul Andersen answers the very simple question: What is cancer? He explains how damage to the DNA can create uncontrolled cell growth. He explains how malignant tumors can spread the disease throughout the body and gives...
Catalyst University
How Can Smoking Cause Lung Cancer
Here, I present one of the most important mechanisms for the carcinogenic properties of cigarette smoking. P450-oxidized metabolites of benzo[a]pyrene damage DNA and can induce mutations leading to the uncontrolled cell growth associated...
Science360
Breakthrough In Early Cancer Detection
There are only a few procedures that can detect very early signs of cancer. Those that do are often invasive, expensive and uncomfortable, leading to poor screening rates. With support from the National Science Foundation, Vadim Backman...
The Economist
How to spot the deadliest form of cancer
Lung cancer is the deadliest of cancers. Screening could save thousands of lives, so why is it not the norm?
JJ Medicine
Ras Raf MAPK Pathway and Cancer | Mutations, Cancer Pathogenesis, and Chemotherapy
Lesson on Ras Raf MEK ERK (MAPK) pathway and its involvement in cancer pathogenesis. Various mutations in EGFR, Ras and Raf proteins can lead to particular types of cancer, which can be treated with chemotherapeutic treatments that...
Healthcare Triage
You Can Do a Lot to Prevent Some Cancers
Americans seem very afraid of cancer. Much of this fear is legitimate. Cancer is a significant cause of death. Unlike other causes, it often seems to come out of nowhere. It's the "silent killer". But evidence increasingly argues that...
JJ Medicine
Coffee: Health Benefits (ex. Reduction of Cancer) and Risks (ex. Pregnancy)
Coffee: Health Benefits and Risks In this lesson, we discuss animal model findings, cohort studies and meta-analyses concerning health benefits (neurological protection, liver health, cancer reduction) and health risks of consuming coffee.
TED Talks
Eva Vertes: Meet the future of cancer research
Eva Vertes -- only 19 when she gave this talk -- discusses her journey toward studying medicine and her drive to understand the roots of cancer and Alzheimer’s.
SciShow
The Rarest Cancer on Earth: Only One Known Case
You've heard of Breast Cancer, Skin Cancer, Colon Cancer, and many others. But this specific cancer was something entirely different—it took a research team five months to diagnose this specific cancer case, and that’s due purely to its...
Brainwaves Video Anthology
Jack Andraka - Breakthrough How One Teen Innovator is Changing the World
JACK ANDRAKA was just a fifteen year old Maryland high school sophomore when he invented an inexpensive early detection test for pancreatic, ovarian, and lung cancers. Now, at seventeen, Jack’s groundbreaking results have earned him...
Curated Video
What Is Cancer?
What happens to cells for cancerous growths to occur? Your body is made up of millions and millions of cells. In fact there are between 50 and 75 trillion cells in the body. These cells are dying and being replaced all the time. Cancer...
Science360
Computational biology of cancer
Endometrial cancer affects 48,000 women per year in the United States. For patients with tumors greater than two centimeters in diameter, the effected organ(s) and lymph nodes may be surgically removed. Yet post-surgery analysis shows...
Healthcare Triage
Is Vaping Linked to Lung Cancer? We Turn to Mice.
We don’t yet know the long-term health consequences of e-cigarettes, and gaining that knowledge could take decades. However, a recently published study in mice offers new data for consideration.
Curated Video
PET Scanning: Revolutionizing Cancer Detection and Treatment
PET scanning is a highly advanced medical imaging system that plays a crucial role in detecting diseases like cancer. It can distinguish between benign and malignant tumors, providing vital information for doctors to determine the best...
Curated Video
Smoker's Lungs
Smokers’ Lungs will show students what the lungs of a smoker look like and the negative impacts that smoking has on a person.
Next Animation Studio
Rare case sees four women develop cancer from donated organs
In an extremely rare case, four patients developed cancer after receiving organs from the same donor, with three succumbing to the disease.
STAT
Living life, stalked by death
In 2005, Linnea Olson was diagnosed with lung cancer. After chemotherapy treatment, her doctor prescribed an experimental drug targeting a mutation in her tumor. It worked, briefly.
Curated Video
Wellbeing A-Z -Quit
Over 8000 people per year take up smoking in the US alone, and most of them start before their 21st birthday. Lung cancer is the second most common cause of death in the world, and ninety percent of all lung cancers result from smoking....
Gresham College
The Prevention of Cancer - Professor Chris Whitty
There is wide variation in how easy cancers are to prevent but greater understanding of modifiable risk factors will lead to many cancers becoming substantially less common in the future....
Curated Video
What Is Cancer? | Genetics | Biology | FuseSchool
What Is Cancer? | Genetics | Biology | FuseSchool What happens to cells for cancerous growths to occur? Your body is made up of millions and millions of cells. In fact there are between 50 and 75 trillion cells in the body. These cells...
Life Noggin
What Really Causes Cancer?
Discover the hidden risks of cancer-causing elements like UV rays, viruses and more! Watch more Life Noggin Cancer May Have Finally Met Its Match! ▶▶ https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=r0cnavajNac Check out the team that powers Life Noggin!...
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