Nova: Cancer Warrior

Animations of the different phases of cancer, make this a great resource for understanding the development of this disease.

Determine the toxicity of salt to an intracellular liver process using a dose response curve.

Pupils perform an experiment to determine how different salt concentrations affect the liver's ability to break down toxic hydrogen peroxide. They record and average their data which is then graphed.

Follow the growth of a carcinoma from initial mutation to widespread metastasis in this feature from the NOVA: "Cancer Warrior" Web site.