ADDITIONAL RESOURCES
This page offers a list of resources designed to help those who are interested in learning more about basic cancer biology and/or oncology. They include a selection of books, websites and prizes/bursaries that you could enter, podcasts, and talks/videos. There are new publications every day, so if you find a resource that you feel should be on here, we would love to hear your suggestions, so make sure to Contact Us.
POPULAR SCIENCE BOOKS
Mukherjee S. The Emperor of All Maladies. (2010)
Mukherjee S. The Laws of Medicine. (2015)
Mukherjee S. The Gene. An Intimate History. (2016)
Gawande A. Being Mortal: Medicine and What Matters in the End (2014)
Gawande A. Checklist Manifesto: How to Get things right. (2009)
Skloot R. The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks. (2010)
James N. Cancer: A Very Short Introduction. (2011)
Le Fanu J. The Rise and Fall of Modern Medicine. (2000)
Johnson G. The Cancer Chronicles. (2013)
Weinberg R. One Renegade Cell. (2008)
Weinberg R. The Biology of Cancer. (2007)
Goldacre B. Bad Science. (2009)
Goldacre B. Bad Pharma. (2012)
Brown T. Critical Care. (2010)
Kalanithi P. When Breath Becomes Air (2016)
Kahneman D. Thinking, Fast and Slow (2011)
Gigerenzer G. Risk Savvy (2014)
Kendrick M. Doctoring Data: How to Sort Out Medical Advice from Medical Nonsense. (2014)
Marsh H. Do No Harm: Stories of Life, Death and Brain Surgery (2014)
GENERAL WEBSITES
Cancer Research UK: UK-based cancer research and awareness charity. They do research, including at the IGMM in Edinbrurgh, volunteering, and fundraising. Make sure to check out their Ambassador programme.
Scottish Cancer Prevention Network: The SCPN are committed to getting the word about cancer prevention out to individuals, health professionals, policy makers and government. Through their student charter, students can get a free newsletter, free access to an annual conference, resources and other events!
Macmillan Cancer Support: British charity provides specialist health care, information and financial support to people affected by cancer.
The Association of Cancer Physicians: the UK medical oncology society
SCAN: SE Scotland Cancer Network pages
The Royal College of Radiologists: the Royal College for the science and practice of Radiology and Oncology
American Society of Clinical Oncology (ASCO): Major American Oncology Society
Joint Royal Colleges of Physicians' Training Board: general information on medical and clinical oncology
British Society of Haematology: Haematology society for United Kingdom
The Story of Cancer: PBS documentary (Spring 2015) based on the Emperor of All Maladies
BONUS: British Oncology Network for Undergraduate Societies
Brain Tumour Research: A charity focused on researching and campaigning on issues surrounding cancers of the brain
National Cancer Research Institute: NCRI consists of partners that all work together to coordinate cancer research in the UK
UNDERGRADUATE RESEARCH AND ELECTIVE BURSARIES/PRIZES
PODCASTS
Podcast on Drug Discovery: From Nuffield Department of Medicine
Cancer Podcast series: from Dana Farber Cancer Institute
TALKS AND VIDEOS
BBC Scotland: The Cancer Hospital - The Beatson Institute Glasgow Episode 1 (2018)
BBC Scotland: The Cancer Hospital - The Beatson Institute Glasgow Episode 2 (2018)
BBC Scotland: The Cancer Hospital - The Beatson Institute Glasgow Episode 3 (2018)
Siddhartha Mukherjee: The Cancer Puzzle (2010)
Mina Bissell: Experiments that Point to a New Understanding of Cancer (2012)
William Li: Can We Eat to Starve Cancer? (2010)
Deborah Rhodes: A Tool that Finds 3x More Breast Tumors, and Why it's Not Available to you (2011)
Ananda Shankar Jayant Fights Cancer with Dance (2010)
The C Word: Trailer - BBC One (2015)
VSauce: Why Don't We All Have Cancer? (2014)
David Agus: A New Strategy in the War Against Cancer (2010)
Eva Vertes: My Dream About the Future of Medicine (2007)
Jack Andraka: A Promising Test for Pancreatic Cancer ... from a Teenager (2013)
Debra Jarvis: Yes, I Survived Cancer. But that Doesn't Define Me (2014)
Jedd Wolchok: The Immune System vs. Cancer (2014)