
Explore the history and biology of cancer, including mitosis and tumor dynamics, and the development of surgery, chemotherapy, and radiation therapies.
Trace cancer history from tobacco and infections to genetic drivers, screening milestones, and targeted surgeries, therapies, and resistance, including Ames test, Her2, Gleevec, and immunotherapy.
Explore how viruses drive cancer by viral gene transfer, how cells shift from anchorage dependent to metastatic, and how oncogenes, tumor suppressors, and epigenetic regulation propel tumor evolution.
Explore how cell cycle checkpoints, oncogenes, and tumor suppressors drive mitosis and apoptosis, detailing G1, R point, RB, p53, and intrinsic and extrinsic death pathways.
Delve into how telomerase-driven immortality and angiogenesis drive cancer, highlighting VEGF-driven vessel formation, notch signaling, and the tumor microenvironment, including wound healing and macrophage roles.
Explore cancer metabolism, including glycolysis and the Warburg effect, and its link to angiogenesis. Learn how lactate, hypoxia, reactive oxygen species, and metabolomics influence tumor progression, prognosis, and precision therapy.
Explores how innate and adaptive immunity detect and combat cancer, including NK cells, T cells, macrophages, Tregs, MHC, PD-L1/PD-1, CTLA-4, and tumor microenvironment dynamics.
Explore engineered immunotherapies, including antibodies, CAR-T cells, and checkpoint blockade, to direct immune attack on cancer. Examine the tumor microbiome's role in shaping therapy response and barrier integrity.
Explore how cancer cells evolve via mitosis, epigenetic changes, and tumor heterogeneity, revealing plasticity, senescence, and ecological interactions that shape progression and therapy outcomes.
Explore next-gen cancer therapies and living drugs, including CAR-T cells, CRISPR-based approaches, targeted therapies, and nanomedicine delivery, guided by genomics, epigenetics, and real-time biomarkers.
This course will allow you to learn classical and modern Cancer Biology through multidisciplinary perspectives. You’ll explore tumor treatment history, genetics, metabolism, plasticity, evolution, cellular dynamics, and therapeutic futures where we can fight all of these forces. We’ll be able to explore a myriad of interdisciplinary topics because Cancer is one of the most interconnected sub-disciplines as well. Special emphasis will be placed on principles that carry real-life and/or medical relevance. This was is designed to be comprehensive, serving as an excellent resource for undergraduates, medical post-graduates building more knowledge in preparation for key courses and clinical rotations, and Biology experts seeking to grow their expanse.
Your purchase includes 16+ hours of Comprehensive video lectures, 10 final exam questions, and all PDF key info slides.
Life is a special phenomenon, possibly unique to this single planet in a massive universe. The emergence of life, consciousness, and creativity from non-living matter is one of the most important processes to ever occur, but these processes come with a price. There is no other force as powerful as the combined weight of Genetics, Evolution, and Ecology borne by tumors. They truly are the emperor of all maladies, haunting us as we speak. We cover the key historical details alongside the primary Biological mechanisms that make this disease the worst one in existence.
How we can apply our unique gift as humans to do the most good is more important than ever. Our future needs leaders that understand Cancer Biology for this to take place, especially in the age of misinformation. This class seeks to take you through and then beyond the books to explore what about life, humanity, and everything in between makes this world special, granting specific attention to the dark forces carried inside each of us.