Cancer: Overview of Types, Symptoms, & Treatments: Cancer Overview

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A Credo Reference landing page on cancer. This page includes links to reference works, images, and a concept map.

CRI funds scientists from around the world to advance new avenues of discovery, new technologies, and new ways to analyze and share data about our immune system and its power to outsmart cancer — with the shared goal of making immunotherapy a lifesaving treatment for all cancers.

This program tells the untold story of the first-ever war on cancer and the coalition of people who fought tirelessly to save women from cervical cancer: a Greek immigrant, Dr. George Papanicolau; his intrepid wife, Mary; Japanese-born artist, Hashime Murayama; Dr. Helen Dickens, an African American OBGYN in Philadelphia and an entirely new class of female scientists.

THE CANCER JOURNALS REVISITED is prompted by the question of what it means to re-visit and re-vision Black lesbian feminist poet Audre Lorde’s classic 1980 memoir of her breast cancer experience today. At the invitation of filmmaker Lana Lin, who was diagnosed with breast cancer in 2010, twenty-seven writers, artists, activists, health care advocates, and current and former patients recite Lorde’s manifesto aloud on camera, collectively dramatizing it and producing an oration for the screen. The film is both a critical commentary and a poetic reflection upon the precarious conditions of survival within the intimate and politicized public sphere of illness.

The search for a cure for cancer has entered a revolutionary new era of precision medicine as experts create personalized treatments based on cancer patients’ unique genetic makeup. Defeating Cancer spotlights the cutting-edge biomedical and health research efforts and the many threads that connect cancer patients to doctors, researchers and innovators around the world. Cancer survivor Sharon Osbourne narrates this powerful story of innovative breakthroughs in the ongoing battle against cancer. Cancer treatment has advanced over the years. Previously, doctors used relatively the same methods for treating all cancer patients. However, in the past decade, they have learned that cancer cells act differently from patient to patient. This realization has opened up new avenues for treatment on the individual level. This is what precision medicine is all about, and Defeating Cancer explores several new advances in the field including genetic testing, immunotherapy, nanotechnology, personalized forms of early cancer screenings and pinpoint-accurate radiation treatment. Through interviews and personal stories, the program introduces viewers to doctors, researchers and patients who have their own stories, scars and successes in the battle against cancer.

The first episode in the Cancer Story series provides a primer on how cancer begins and grows. Using colorful animation and interviews with medical experts, the program explains normal cell behavior and cancer etiology within a larger, dramatized story of a cancer patient undergoing diagnosis and treatment. With straightforward commentary from Drs. C. Norman Coleman, Christopher Lowrey, and three other renowned M.D.s, What Is Cancer painlessly introduces a complicated and often intimidating subject. A Dartmouth-Hitchcock Medical Center Production.