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Understanding Cancer: Types, Tumors, and Risk Factors
This video provides an introduction to cancer, explaining what it is, the different types of tumors (benign and malignant), and the risk factors associated with it. The video uses simple animations to visualize the differences between...
Professor Dave Explains
Brain Damage and Neuroplasticity
At this point, we understand how important the brain is. So naturally, when the brain is damaged in some way, it is usually disastrous for the individual. What are the different types of brain damage? How does the brain respond? We will...
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...
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Procedure to provide less expensive screening for esophageal cancer
A new procedure could provide an easier, cheaper way to detect esophageal cancers early. (Scripps News)
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Hospitals begin offering breakthrough radiation therapy for metastatic cancer tumors
Radiation is part of treatment for about half of cancer patients. A breakthrough could change the future of the treatment and open up the option for others who may not have been able to get it. (Scripps News)
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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.
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Sen. Edward M. Kennedy, battling a brain tumor, walked through a wall of applause into the Senate on Wednesday and cast a stunningly unexpected vote on long-stalled Medicare legislation.
HEADLINE: Raw Video: Ailing Sen. Kennedy returns to Senate
CAPTION: Sen. Edward M. Kennedy, battling a brain tumor, walked through a wall of applause into the Senate on Wednesday and cast a stunningly unexpected vote on...
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Michael Douglas has tumor in throat
AP Television
New York, 25 May 2010
1. File Wide shot of Michael Douglas and wife Catherine Zeta-Jones with Kirk Douglas and wife Anne Buydens on red carpet for event honoring Michael Douglas.
2. File of Michael Douglas and wife...
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Young British brain tumour patient arrives at hospital for treatment in Prague
A five-year-old British boy who was taken from a hospital in the UK without doctors' consent arrived at a Prague hospital with his parents on Monday for treatment for a brain tumour.
Ashya King left the Spanish city of Malaga, where he...
Sky News
Pioneering stem cell treatment for lung cancer to be trialled in the UK
Pioneering stem cell treatment for lung cancer to be trialled in the UK
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Two winners of Nobel Prize in Medicine developed therapies for treating cancer
The Nobel Prize in medicine was jointly awarded Monday to two researchers from the United States and Japan for advances in discovering how the body's immune system can fight off the scourge of cancer.
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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...
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U.S. breast cancer rates plunged an unprecedented 7 percent in 2003, the year after millions of women stopped taking menopause hormones when a study showed the pills raise the risk of tumors.
HEADLINE: Breast Cancer Rate Plunged 7 Pct. in '03 (breast-cancer)
CAPTION: U.S. breast cancer rates plunged an unprecedented 7 percent in 2003, the year after millions of women stopped taking menopause hormones when a study showed the...
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Smoking is one of Hungary''s biggest killers
AP Television
Budapest, Hungary - September 14, 2011
1. Wide of Andras Gulyas wheeling his chair into a mobile lung screening bus
2. Mid of Gulyas inside the X-ray bus, talking to staff
3. Mid of staff checking Gulyas''s health...
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A 9-year-old Maine girl is home from a Boston hospital healthy, active and with high hopes _ and a new stomach, liver, spleen, small intestine, pancreas, and part of an esophagus to replace the ones that were being choked by a huge tumor.
HEADLINE: 'Lucky' 9-year-old receives 6-organ transplant
CAPTION: A 9-year-old Maine girl is home from a Boston hospital healthy, active and with high hopes _ and a new stomach, liver, spleen, small intestine, pancreas, and part of an...
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Scientists often test drugs on mice, but now some cancer patients are doing the same. They're paying a private lab to breed mouse 'avatars' that carry bits of their own tumors so treatments can first be tried on customized rodents. (Dec. 15)
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"We're waiting for the tumor to get to the right size..."
(SUPER = Baltimore)
(SUPER = Eileen Youtie, Breast cancer patient)
"You do what you gotta do, you know? You get scared."
(SUPER =...
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Animals reveal scientific secrets at a festival for new medical advances
London, UK, June 30, 2014
1. Close pan of Gorgosaurus dinosaur skeleton
2. Mid shot Gorgosaurus dinosaur skeleton
3. Close of dinosaur claw
4. Close of dinosaur head being pushed inside machine
5. Mid shot Professor Phil Manning,...
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Boy with brain tumour, whose parents removed him from UK hospital, may be heading to Czech Republic for treatment
Ashya King, the five-year-old boy with a brain tumour whose parents' fight with the Nation Health Service in Britain has drawn international attention, may be heading to the Czech Republic soon for cancer treatment.
A representative from...
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Concerns over quality of healthcare for cancer patients
Recent shortages that have left Venezuelans scrambling to find toilet paper, milk and car parts are also affecting the country's health system.
Broken hospital equipment isn't being repaired, leaving patients struggling to get the care...
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Former president admitted to hospital for tumour tests
1. Wide of Headquarters of National Police venue of trial
2. Security officers outside the headquarters
3. Pan of former President Alberto Fujimori arriving at court
4. Judges
5. SOUNDBITE ( Spanish) Cesar San Martin, Chief judge:
"And...
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AP cover of Senator Kennedy leaving hospital after tumour diagnosis
AP Television
Boston, Massachusetts
1. Mid of US Senator Edward Kennedy with wife Vicki walking out of hospital, waving as audience applauds
2. Mid shot as Kennedy's dogs get out of car, he pets them
3. Close-up, Kennedy waving at well...
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Planetary mapping device helps detect brain tumours
April 1999. Los Angeles, California - recent
1. Mid shot of doctor and medical team in operating room during brain surgery.
2. Close shot of doctor/pan down to close shot of patient.
3. Wide shot of operating room.
NASA video.
4....
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USA: COMPANY SAY CANCER DRUG NOT TO BE SEEN AS MIRACLE CURE (2)
Rockville, Maryland - May 5, 1998 and Los Angeles, California May 5, 1998
Rockville, Maryland - May 5 1998
1. Wide shot of laboratory technician working in EntreMed laboratory
2. Close up of technician putting liquid in a vial
3. Medium...