Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Mit: Blossoms: From Teenage to Old Age: How Cancer Develops Over Time
Students participate in a hands-on lesson discovering how cancer is caused by mutations that accumulate over time.
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...
Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory
Dolan Dna Learning Center: Pathways to Cancer
Get a 3D view of how cancer develops! This narrated animation illustrates the signaling pathway that leads to the development of cancer. [9:34]
Khan Academy
Khan Academy: Cancer
Video lesson presents an introduction to what cancer is and how it is the by-product of broken DNA replication. [12:35]
Howard Hughes Medical Institute
Hhmi: Biointeractive: Using P53 to Fight Cancer
Watch this narrated animation which explains a breakthrough procedure using the protein p53 to fight cancer. [1:01]
Howard Hughes Medical Institute
Hhmi: Bio Interactive: Polyp Removal
A close-up look at the removal of a polyp. [0:36]
Howard Hughes Medical Institute
Hhmi: Biointeractive: Dna Damage and Mutations
A concise overview of what happens when a mutation occurs in our DNA, and how that causes some cancers. [1:06]
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.
National Institutes of Health
National Institutes of Health: Students Activities 2: Cancer and the Cell Cycle
A collection of animations that explore the cell cycle and how the cycle is changed during cancer.
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...
Amoeba Sisters
Amoeba Sisters: The Cell Cycle and Cancer
Learn what can happen when the cell cycle does not follow the normal stages in this video. Understand that cancer is a cell dividing out of control and the possible causes for uncontrolled cell growth. Teachers can visit Amoeba Sisters'...
Khan Academy
Khan Academy: Cancer
A video investigating the definition of cancer and how it occurs when the DNA replication process is broken. [12:36]
Science Friday Initiative
Science Friday: From Lab to Pharmacy
This week, Harold Varmus was sworn in as director of the National Cancer Institute. He's no stranger to government science, having headed the NIH during the 1990s before a stint as head of the Memorial Sloan-Kettering Cancer Center. Dr...
Science Friday Initiative
Science Friday: Cancer Genome Sequenced
Researchers studying the genetics of cancer have sequenced the complete cancer genome of a person with acute myeloid leukemia. We'll talk with one of the scientists on the project about the work and what researchers hope to learn from...
Howard Hughes Medical Institute
Hhmi: Bio Interactive: The Guardian of the Genome
Discover the role the p53 gene plays in preventing cancer. A brief presentation of the three genes related to cancer is followed by a more indepth look at the p53 gene and its role in preventing cancer.