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  • Elementary School - Grades 4-6
    P=Project   E=Experiment
    Cancer and Oncologists [P]
    Everything you could ever want to know about skin cancer [P]
    Investigate Kidney Cancer and how it affects peoples lives - symtoms, diagnosis, causes and risk factors, when to seek medical advice. [E] [P]
    What is lung cancer? [P]
    Breast Cancer Science Fair Projects & Experiments
    Cancer Causes, Treatment, and Therapy: Science Fair Projects & Experiments
    Middle School - Grades 7-9
    P=Project   E=Experiment
    Can marinating chicken prior to grilling reduce carcinogens? [P] [P]
    Can Re-Mission, the video game I played while receiving cancer treatment, cause a change in cognitive perceptions leading to improved health related outcomes such as self efficacy, cancer knowledge, treatment adherence, and quality of life. [E]
    Determine whether bacteria can be used as a test for protection against ultraviolet ray damage and skin cancer. (How utraviolet light (UV) and sunscreen affects bacterial growth?). [E]
    Does Method of Delivery of Chemotherapy Affect Cancer Cell Death? [E]
    Investigating Dispersion Patterns of Leukemia and Seizure Disorder in Monterey Co. Public Schools by Geographic Location [E] [E]
    Effects of Nicotine on Cancer Cell and Endothelial Cell Proliferation [E]
    A Comparison of Thyroid Cancer Rates Between Montana and the United States as a Result of Radiation Fallout (Iodine 131) [P]
    A Histological Investigation of the Effect of H. Pylori and High Sodium Diets in the Development of Gastric Cancer [P]
    How do cruciferous vegetables (broccoli, cauliflower, bok choy) fight cancer? [P]
    Plant Cancer: Can It Be Treated? [E]
    Determine whether beta carotene helps prevent the growth of cancer in plants. [E] [E]

    Breast Cancer Science Fair Projects & Experiments
    Cancer Causes, Treatment, and Therapy: Science Fair Projects & Experiments
    High School - Grades 10-12
    P=Project   E=Experiment

    Ovarian Cancer

    Determine the mechanism by which cancer cells resist cisplatin - one of the most common drugs used in ovarian cancer chemotherapy. [P]
    Mechanisms of Survival Against a Fatty Acid Synthase Inhibitor in Multidrug Resistant Ovarian Cancer [E]
    The Effects of a Fatty Acid Synthase Inhibitor on Multi-drug Resistant Ovarian Cancer Cells [E]
    The Correlation between the Glycemic Index and the Development of Ovarian Serous Tumors of Low Malignant Potential [E]
    The Effect of Age at First Menstruation on Ovarian Cancer Development [E]

    Prostate Cancer

    The Utilization of Gold Nanoparticles for the Treatment of Malignant Prostate Cancer Cells [P] [P]
    The Inhibitory Effect of HKa on Prostate Cancer Line DU145 Is Mediated by Blocking Metastasis [E]
    Investigation of the Inhibitory Effect of HKa on Metastasis of Prostate Cancer Cell Line DU145 [E]
    CD1d Antigen Expression for the Therapeutics of Prostate Cancer [E]

    Brain Cancer

    Cellular phone radiation: does it cause genetic damage (cancer)? [E] [E] [E] [E] [E] [E] [E] [E] [E] [P]
    Human Dendritic Cells as a Clinical Tool to Cure Human Brain Tumors [E]
    Micropathology Lab Device for Detecting Molecular Lesions of Glioblastoma [E]
    New Imaging Technique Promises Higher Resolution of Brain Cancer Tumor Boundaries using Photoacoustic Imaging [E]
    Microfluidic Image Cytometry to Detect PI3K Pathway Markers in Brain Cancer [E]

    Lymph Cancer and Lymphoma

    Can Tamoxifen, a breast cancer regimen currently only used to treat cancers with estrogen receptors (ER), be used to treat Burkitt's Lymphoma that lack estrogen receptors? [P]
    See if tumor cells could travel through the lymph system to metastasize to other parts of the body and the factors within the nodes that contribute to the spread. [E]
    Effect of Selective vs. Nonselective COX Inhibitors on Mesothelial and Malignant Cells in Pleural and Ascitic Fluids [E]

    Lung Cancer

    Identification of a Novel Pathway and Its Therapeutic Targets of Tobacco Promotion of Lung Cancer [E] [E]
    See if tumor cells could travel through the lymph system to metastasize to other parts of the body and the factors within the nodes that contribute to the spread. [E]
    Investigate the History of Mesothelioma and Asbestos Litigation [E]
    The link between the BAX promoter in non-small cell lung cancer and patients not responding to treatment. [P]
    Cellular Characterization of Nickel-Induced C3H/10T1/2 Cl 8 Cell Transformation [E]
    The Effects of Curcumin on MCF7 Breast Cancer Cells and A549 Lung Cancer Cells [E]
    Effects of Nicotine on Cancer Cell and Endothelial Cell Proliferation [E]

    Leukemia

    What is Leukemia? [P]
    Investigating Dispersion Patterns of Leukemia and Seizure Disorder in Monterey Co. Public Schools by Geographic Location [E] [E]

    Pancreatic Cancer

    Use web-based bioinformatics tools to identify genes that are over-expressed in pancreatic cancer tissue. [E]

    Thyroid Cancer

    A Comparison of Thyroid Cancer Rates Between Montana and the United States as a Result of Radiation Fallout (Iodine 131) [P]

    Melanoma

    Image Processing and Machine Learning for the Diagnosis of Melanoma Cancer [P]
    Selective Amplification of Rare Mutations in Tumor Cells Enriched from Whole Human Blood [E]

    Miscellany

    Examine the cytotoxic effect of an anti-cancer lipid drug, called edelfosine, and how the antioxidant lipid vitamin E would interfere with it. [P] [P]
    Breast Cancer Science Fair Projects & Experiments
    Cancer Causes, Treatment, and Therapy: Science Fair Projects & Experiments
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