Interactive film · HTML5 interactive film
The Story of Cancer in 20 Slides
An interactive film that travels from ancient papyrus to tumour DNA in a blood sample in twenty slides. It pauses for five challenges so viewers can test what they have learned, and labels every milestone as historical, standard, investigational or theoretical.
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Prefer a bigger screen? Open the player in a new tab. Keyboard: Space play or pause, ← → change scene, C captions.
What this resource covers
- How ideas about cancer changed from ancient Egypt and Greece to the present
- Why anaesthesia (1846) and antisepsis (1867) made major cancer surgery possible
- The birth of screening with the Pap smear, and how HPV testing joined it
- Hormone therapy, the first chemotherapy drugs, targeted drugs and immunotherapy
- Blood as a window: circulating tumour cells and tumour DNA
- How to tell standard care from investigational and theoretical ideas
How to use this resource
- Turn your sound on. Narration uses the UK English voices built into your device, with captions on by default.
- Answer the five challenges when the film pauses, or choose Show answer to continue.
- Use the chapter list to jump to a topic for a class or a waiting-room discussion.
- Pair it with Tests explained to connect history with the tests used today.
Accessibility
Captions are on by default and can be toggled with the C key. All controls work with a keyboard. Narration can be switched to captions only.
