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Health Talk Online: Cervical Cancer

For Students 9th - 10th
Listen to interviews with women to find out their experiences with cervical cancer. Topics include discover, treatment and side effects, and living with it. You can watch, read, or listen to the interviews.
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Health Talk Online: Prostate Cancer

For Students 9th - 10th
Interesting interviews with individuals who have had experience with prostate cancer are found on this informative resource. Topics discussed during the interviews are psa testing, signs and investigations, and treatment.
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Health Talk Online: Colorectal Cancer

For Students 9th - 10th
Read about, listen to, or view individuals who have experienced bowel cancer discuss how it was discovered, treatments they received, side effects, and recovery.
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Health Talk Online: Ovarian Cancer

For Students 9th - 10th
Read, listen to, or view interviews with individuals who have actually had experiences with ovarian cancer. the interviews delve into symptoms, diagnosis, treatment, and impact on self.
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eBook
National Cancer Institute at the National Institutes of Health

Cancer.gov: What You Need to Know About Bladder Cancer

For Students 9th - 10th
This resource has detailed information about bladder cancer and its treatment. It includes a glossary of terms.
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eBook
National Cancer Institute at the National Institutes of Health

Cancer.gov: What You Need to Know About Kidney Cancer

For Students 9th - 10th
This resource provides detailed information about kidney cancer. Includes information on symptoms, diagnosis, treatment, and causes of kidney cancer. Also, has links to definitions of many of the medical terms used throughout the site.
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eBook
National Cancer Institute at the National Institutes of Health

Cancer.gov: What You Need to Know Non Hodgkin's Lymphoma

For Students 9th - 10th
This site by the National Cancer Institute provides very detailed information about Non-Hodgkin's Lymphoma. Contains information about detection, symptoms, diagnosis, and treatment of non-Hodgkin's lymphoma. Also, includes links to...
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eBook
National Cancer Institute at the National Institutes of Health

Cancer.gov: What You Need to Know About Oral Cancer

For Students 9th - 10th
This site describes the symptoms, diagnosis, treatment, and other information about oral cancer.
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eBook
National Cancer Institute at the National Institutes of Health

Cancer.gov: What You Need to Know About Prostate Cancer

For Students 9th - 10th
This site provides an in-depth review of a variety of topics related to prostate cancer including causes, the stages of the disease, prevention, and treatment. Included is a list of terms and definitions.
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Starlight Children's Foundation: Coping With Chemo

For Students 9th - 10th
Vignettes about the different phases of coping with chemotherapy when you have cancer. Geared toward teens, this site emphasizes teens helping teens along the journey.
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Mayo Clinic

Mayo Clinic: Video: How Cancer Spreads

For Students 9th - 10th
Learn about how cancer cells spread or metastasize throughout the body in this example animation video [1:28] of melanoma spreading.
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Cancer Research Uk: The Uk's Leading Cancer Charity

For Students Pre-K - 1st
Research is killing cancer, over 200 types of cancer to be exact. Discover ways that the UK's leading cancer charity is helping to bring an end to the disease that has affected millions worldwide.
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CPALMS

Florida State University Cpalms: Florida Students: Cancer: Mutated Cells Gone Wild!

For Students 9th - 10th
This tutorial reviews how uncontrolled cell growth caused by mutations in the cell cycle may cause cancer.
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Emory University: Cancer Quest

For Students 9th - 10th
Provides an in-depth look at the biology of cancer, including a detailed description of the disease process from the basics of cells to the diagnosis and treatment of various types of cancers. Includes videos, animations, and interactive...
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National Cancer Institute at the National Institutes of Health

Cancer.gov: Q & a About Smoking Cessation

For Students 9th - 10th
This site discusses, through a series of questions and answers, the benefits of smoking cessation. Also provides links to definitions of many of the terms used throughout the site.
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National Cancer Institute at the National Institutes of Health

Cancer.gov: Cancer Causes and Risk Factors

For Students 9th - 10th
This site provides links to articles that deal specifically with many different causes of cancer, such as genetic, hormonal, or from a chemical that is inhaled or eaten.
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National Cancer Institute at the National Institutes of Health

National Cancer Institute: Cancer Topics

For Students 9th - 10th
This site provides information on virtually every type of cancer. Information can be found on prevention, causes, detection, treatments, research, and support groups.
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Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center: Testicular Cancer

For Students 9th - 10th
This resource provides links to an overview of testicular cancer, causes, diagnosis, treatment, life after testicular cancer, and how to do a testicular self-examination.
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Other

Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center: Cancer

For Students 9th - 10th
General information on what cancer is, types of cancer, treatment and prevention.
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US National Library of Medicine

Medline Plus: Videos Y Multimedia

For Students 9th - 10th
Online presentations on more than 150 health topics, diseases, and conditions, from acne to viruses. Each plays as a slide presentation, with sound, that you can control or set to autoplay. Time varies from 5-20 minutes. Available in...
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TeachEngineering

Teach Engineering: Glowing Flowers

For Teachers 6th - 8th
Student teams learn about engineering design of green fluorescent proteins (GFPs) and their use in medical research, including stem cell research. They simulate the use of GFPs by adding fluorescent dye to water and letting a flower or...
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TeachEngineering

Teach Engineering: Quantum Dots and Colors

For Teachers 9th - 10th
Students are introduced to the physical concept of the colors of rainbows as light energy in the form of waves with distinct wavelengths, but in a different manner than traditional kaleidoscopes. Looking at different quantum dot...
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TeachEngineering

Teach Engineering: Applying Hooke's Law to Cancer Detection

For Teachers 10th - 12th
Students explore Hooke's law while working in small groups at their lab benches. They collect displacement data for springs with unknown spring constants, k, by adding various masses of known weight. After exploring Hooke's law and...
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TeachEngineering

Teach Engineering: Show Me the Genes

For Teachers 10th - 12th
In this activity, students create posters which explain and illustrate thin film refraction and the factors that influence it. The goal is to explain the experimental results of using an optical biosensor, and prove these results with a...