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The Great Courses - What Science Knows about Cancer With David Sadava
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Few global challenges touch humanity with as much immediacy or ubiquity as cancer. Over the course of their lifetime, one in three people in North America, Europe, and Australia will develop a malignancy, and in the United States alone, the direct and indirect costs of cancer amount to billions of dollars a year. The sad truth is that almost every family in the Western world will be affected by cancer at some point in their lives.

The good news is that the landscape of cancer treatment and prevention is a vastly different place than it was even a decade ago. Thanks to a relatively new focus on molecular medicine, scientists have been on a highly encouraging trajectory of discovery. And with each passing day, researchers are gaining a deeper understanding of the mechanisms involved, poising them on the brink of tremendous breakthroughs.

Professor David Sadava Ph.D.
City of Hope Medical Center, Claremont Colleges


Course Lecture Titles:

1 Cancer Is an Ongoing Challenge
2 Cancer Is a Major Burden to Society
3 Discovering Causes of Cancer in Populations
4 Some Causes of Cancer in Populations
5 DNA Is the Key to Understanding Cancer
6 How Does DNA Change to Initiate Cancer?
7 How Do We Know If Something Causes Cancer?
8 How Do Normal Cells Function?
9 What Is Different about Cancer Cells?
10 How Do Tumors Grow?
11 How Tumors Spread and Thrive
12 What Are Tumor Viruses?
13 How Do Tumor Viruses Cause Cancer?
14 How Do Cancer-Causing Genes Work?
15 Can Cancer Be Inherited?
16 How Do Normal Genes Suppress Tumors?
17 How Do Genetic Changes Result in Cancer?
18 Treating Cancer with Surgery
19 Treating Cancer with Radiation
20 Treating Cancer with Drugs
21 How Do Drugs Attack Cancer?
22 Frontiers of Cancer Treatment
23 Can Screening for Cancer Be Useful?
24 Can Cancer Be Prevented?