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  1. Mustine (2017)

    Subject
    Chemistry; Medical sciences

    Podcast. This programme explains how the use of sulfur mustard, or mustard gas - a blister-causing agent used as a weapon during World War I - led to some of the earliest trials for anti-cancer drugs. [7...

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  2. Aflatoxins (2017)

    aka: Aflatoxins: Chemistry in Its Element

    Subject
    Biology; Chemistry

    Why did thousands of turkeys drop dead across England in 1961? Why is eating peanut butter on a stick of celery better for you than spreading it on toast? This podcast answers both questions by investigating...

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  3. Martha Hall: I Make Books (2016)

    Subject
    Health Education; Women’s studies

    Short film documenting book artist Martha A. Hall’s creative responses to her cancer diagnoses and treatments. Hall’s books provided personal healing and an opportunity to convey her experience of...

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  4. Living Well with Cancer (2015)

    Subject
    Health Education; Medical sciences
    Distribution
    DVD (Region 2 PAL)

    A series of short films produced by York Teaching Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust to help patients get the support they need when living with, and beyond, a cancer diagnosis. Includes advice about how to...

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  5. Repairing the Code (2012)

    Subject
    Biology; Medical sciences

    Video recording of the Francis Crick Lecture given at the Royal Society on 7 December 2011 by Dr Simon Boulton from Cancer Research UK. DNA, also known as the ‘blue print’ of life, encodes the...

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  6. Killer T Cell Attacking Cancer (2012)

    Subject
    Medical sciences

    Short video filmed through an Olympus microscope, showing a killer T cell attacking a cancer cell. The original footage shown was made by Alex Ritter, a PhD student on the NIH-OxCam programme, in the...

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  7. Can Nanotechnology Help Cure Cancer? (2012)

    Subject
    Medical sciences; Technology

    What makes a cancer cell different from a healthy cell and how can nano-particles recognise them in order to deliver chemotherapy treatments without side effects? Nanotechnology expert Sonia Trigueros...

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  8. Robotic Surgery for Cancer Treatment (2010)

    Director
    Kevin Morrison
    Subject
    Medical sciences
    Distribution
    Sale, DVD (Region 0 NTSC, 51 minutes), $29.95

    Robotic systems were first used to remove prostate cancer, then adapted for kidney cancer and bladder cancer procedures, which are more complex because of the variation in surgical anatomy, size and shape of...

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  9. Burzynski the Movie - Cancer is Serious Business (2010)

    Director
    Eric Merola
    Subject
    Law; Medical sciences
    Distribution
    Sale, DVD (Region 0 NTSC, 106 minutes), $20.00

    The story of US medical doctor and biochemist Dr. Stanislaw Burzynski’s legal battle with the Food & Drug Administration, centered around antineoplastons, gene-targeted cancer medicines that he discovered...

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  10. Cancer and the Genome (2 Parts) (2005)

    Subject
    Biology; FE; Medical sciences

    Two 15-minute programmes. The first looks at cancer and its causes and the second shows an A-level biology class demonstrating their knowledge of DNA and proteins.

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