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A panel of independent experts decided that the high incidence of breast cancer among women who had worked in the Australian Broadcasting Company's Brisbane newsroom could not be put down to chance so the site was permanently closed down and all production facilities relocated. This video segment investigates cancer clusters: particular environments with a greater than expected number of cancer cases. The official recognition of a cancer cluster is...
3) Eggs on Ice
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There're a host of reasons, medical and social, for why women delay childbirth. As their biological clocks tick, medical researchers work harder to buy time. In this video segment, find out how they are tweaking techniques to improve the odds that a woman who has her eggs removed and frozen will bear healthy children from them years later.
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People who smoke or use tobacco are at risk of developing throat cancer or malignant tumors of the vocal chords. Excessive alcohol use also increases risk. Most cancers of the throat or larynx develop in adults older than 50, and men are ten times more likely than women to develop them.
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People who smoke or use tobacco are at risk of developing throat cancer or malignant tumors of the vocal chords. Excessive alcohol use also increases risk. Most cancers of the throat or larynx develop in adults older than 50, and men are ten times more likely than women to develop them.
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In the developing world it’s the leading cause of female cancer deaths: it’s cervical cancer, and it kills more than half a million women every year—mostly in poor countries. New low-tech screening programs have begun to reduce cancer deaths, but campaigners like Sarah Nyombi, a politician in Uganda, wants to see more.She’s trying to get a brand new vaccine, widely used in the developed world. The trouble is, it costs $300 a shot—way beyond...
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Early detection of prostate cancer has always been a strong public health message, but does this end up causing more harm than good? Some doctors say that in the case of prostate cancer, it does. In this video clip, hear from doctors who fear that so much testing causes men with prostate cancers that don't cause any symptoms and aren't life-threatening to undergo unnecessary and life-altering treatment.
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Treatments for prostate cancer come with a range of side effects like impotence, incontinence, and sometimes rectal bleeding. In this video clip, meet Gary O'Shea, who was diagnosed with prostate cancer and had to make the difficult decision about what to do next. Fearing the side effects, he declined treatment all together, and instead chose the procedure that is free of any side effects: active surveillance or "deferred therapy.
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Early detection of cancer is important for a better chance of recovery. But in remote areas of the U.S., the imaging equipment used for disease screening, such as mammography, can be costly and hard to come by. Now, biomedical engineers have developed a way to test for cancer that is quick, easy and less expensive.
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For years, scientists tried to get cancer cells to reproduce outside of the body with little success. In 1951, a few days before an African-American woman named Henrietta Lacks died of cervical cancer in a Baltimore hospital, and without her consent, a scientist took samples from her remarkably aggressive tumor and placed them in growth medium to see if the cancerous cells would survive and grow. Not only did they flourish, but Henrietta's cells have...
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Women may be able to treat their breast cancer with a gel that is applied to the skin. Research at Northwestern University has shown that a gel form of tamoxifen applied to the breasts of women with noninvasive breast cancer reduced the growth of cancer cells to the same degree as the drug taken in oral form but with fewer side effects that deter some women from taking it.
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When Oscar-winning documentarist John Zaritsky started directing this program, he had no idea he was about to be diagnosed with prostate cancer himself. Men Don't Cry tells the intimate stories of Greenpeace cofounder Bob Hunter and two other patients as they come to terms with the disease. Each, with the support of his spouse, chooses to fight it in his own way, balancing treatment options, rates of cure and survival, and quality-of-life concerns...
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According to Sushil Beriwal at UPMC Hillman Cancer Center, cervical cancer is one of the most common cancers in low- and middle-income countries. If not treated, it could lead to death. And it’s probably the second-most common cause of cancer death in developing countries.
15) New Hope AANS
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An interview with Steven Kalkanis at the Henry Ford Health System. What does the future of brain cancer look like?
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This program studies the biological processes by which the body reproduces cancerous tumors, and summarizes the results of current research. The various steps of metastasis are clearly demonstrated in film and computer animation. A film segment of real human tissue shows tumor cells moving in a regulated manner under the direction of "leader cells. Computer animation illustrates how a normal cell becomes cancerous. Treatments under development for...
18) Oncogenes
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This program discusses how the chemical alteration of oncogenes in human cells causes the growth of cancerous tumors. Toxic substances, radiation, viruses, and inherited genetic defects are examined as factors causing such alteration. The mechanisms by which the altered forms overrule normal cell regulation are illustrated through microscope views and computer animation. Specific information is provided on cell cycle, cell division, growth factors,...
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The "bête noire" of Big Pharma is making a comeback—this time as a treatment for blood cancers. Thalidomide is the drug best known for causing deformities in thousands of children in Europe and the U.S., but in May 2006, the U.S. Food and Drug Administration approved thalidomide for use in combination with another drug, dexamethasone, to treat newly diagnosed multiple myeloma. Other stage 3 trials should soon lead to new licenses for more cancers....
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Our understanding of lymphoma is rapidly developing, with several varieties now identified. Beginning with a brief history of how medical science became aware of lymphatic cancer and providing an outline of the basic concepts involved, this program then distinguishes between Hodgkin's and Non-Hodgkin's Lymphoma, illustrates the difference between B-Cell and T-Cell Lymphoma, and explores other topics related to the disease. Typical symptoms and their...