All statements about cancer

273 statements about cancer in 121 videos, by upload date.

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2010

2010-07-05 · With Esther — John: Esther has cancer, which John says sucks. — 00:00:14
2010-09-17 · Positive Prank Calls!! — Hank says cancer rates are falling significantly year over year, not only because lung cancer is falling but also thanks to screening for precancerous lesions and the HPV vaccine. — 00:01:17
2010-10-27 · You Are Awesome — John says the bracelets honor Esther Earl, the brothers' friend and fellow Nerdfighter who died a couple of months ago from cancer. — 00:00:42
2010-10-27 · You Are Awesome — announcement: John describes the This Star Won't Go Out Foundation as a new organization founded by Esther's family to help other families with kids who have cancer. — 00:01:11

2012

2012-02-07 · 10 Misconceptions Debunked! — John says the idea that sharks don't get cancer, so eating shark prevents it, is wrong: sharks do get cancer, though how often is unknown because everyone keeps killing them. — 00:00:59
2012-07-24 · The Treadmill Desk! Fitness for Nerds — John says reclining counts as sitting, and sitting too much increases the risk of heart attack, diabetes and certain cancers. — 00:01:46

2013

2013-09-10 · Secrets of the Movies: Thoughts from The Fault in Our Stars Set — John says one of his favorite things about the movie so far is that real teen cancer survivors were cast for the support group; he thanks them for taking part and sharing their experiences. — 00:02:20
2013-09-17 · Question Tuesday with Nat Wolff (aka Isaac in The Fault in Our Stars movie) — Nat Wolff: Nat says meeting teen cancer survivors at a hospital was overwhelming: within minutes they talked movies, TV and music, and he realised they are normal kids in a really lame situation. — 00:01:48
2013-12-31 · GOOD NEWS: 14 Reasons 2014 May Be the Best Year Ever — John says US cancer mortality rates fell 20% in the last 25 years, mostly because people quit smoking, plus better treatment and screening for colon, breast and other cancers. — 00:01:44

2015

2015-11-27 (said on 2015-11-26, implied) · Never Satisfied: The Story of Humans ¦-/ — Hank's thought experiment: if cancer were cured tomorrow we would celebrate for years, but within 20 or 30 years we would normalize and just live in a world without cancer. (hypothetical) — 00:00:42

2016

2016-08-16 · Some Good News: 16 Ways 2016 Is Not a Total Dumpster Fire — John says the overall US cancer survival rate was just under 50% in 1980 and is very close to 70% today. — 00:01:26

2017

2017-05-23 (said on 2017-05-14, implied) · Boxes, Butterflies, and Regular Aunts: Live from the Past, It's Question Tuesday — John says Willy is not doing great: he has a very slow-growing cancer, but he is much loved and has a relatively good prognosis, so they are hopeful. — 00:02:43
2017-08-03 · HAPPY ESTHER DAY!!! — John says that after Esther died her family created This Star Won't Go Out, a charity that has helped many families of kids with cancer. — 00:01:05
2017-12-12 · 2017 is the Best? — John: By some measures 2017 is the best year in history (not Twitter's): absolute poverty is at its lowest share, schooling and adult literacy at their highest, and cancer death rates are down globally. — 00:00:48

2018

2018-02-23 · Dear Young People, You Terrify Me — Hank: Occasionally a mutation lets a cell divide uncontrolled, which is cancer. — 00:00:21
2018-02-27 · Ode to a Dog — John says their dog Willy is probably near the end of his life, and he wants to eulogize him before he dies. (hedged) — 00:00:01
2018-02-27 · Ode to a Dog — John: Willy is harder to care for, with weeks of interrupted sleep; as the cancer advances he becomes the quiet, cuddly dog John once wanted, and John is grateful for the dog he is and was. — 00:03:21
2018-04-20 · This Video is About Marijuana — Hank: Third reason: THC, CBD and other marijuana compounds are legitimate medications, helping with autoimmune diseases, chronic pain, seizure disorders and vomiting in cancer patients. — 00:01:00

2019

2019-09-17 · 'end the stigma' — John: In the mid-20th century it was commonly believed that cancer was caused by childhood depression and social isolation. — 00:02:26
2019-12-03 · We Are Cats Now, I Guess? — John says 70% of cancer cases occur in poor countries, where access to care is so difficult that outcomes are far worse. — 00:02:21
2019-12-03 · We Are Cats Now, I Guess? — John: The Butaro Cancer Center offers real hope: it has treated thousands of people with cancer and helped train many healthcare workers in oncology. — 00:02:38

2020

2020-01-28 · Looking Away (Again) — John says access to mental health care in Kono has dramatically increased, and people with cancer or type 1 diabetes, until recently death sentences, are now treated there. — 00:03:48
2020-08-21 · The Water's Getting Warm — Hank questions the line: cancer, kind of, nuclear proliferation and poverty are also global collective problems; it depends on what he meant by collective. (hedged) — 00:00:00
2020-12-31 · Auld Lang Syne: The Anthropocene Reviewed — John: After finishing Textbook, Amy learned she had cancer and called John, who knew many gravely ill young people after The Fault in Our Stars, to ask how her kids and husband would cope. — 00:12:46
2020-12-31 · Auld Lang Syne: The Anthropocene Reviewed — John told Amy what he thinks is true: love survives death. — 00:13:00
2020-12-31 · Auld Lang Syne: The Anthropocene Reviewed — John should have said her family won't be okay but will go on, as will her love; instead, crying, he said 'How can this be happening? You do so much yoga.' — 00:13:45
2020-12-31 · Auld Lang Syne: The Anthropocene Reviewed — John: Dying people collect stories of stupid things the healthy say, but John knows none as idiotic as his; he hopes Amy got narrative mileage from it, knows he failed her, and wishes he had said something useful or nothing. — 00:14:09

2021

2021-01-01 · In 1990 I Made a Bunch of Predictions About 2020...Here they Are — Hank: The timeline cured cancer in 2000; Hank apologises to little Hank that there turn out to be many cancers. (playful) — 00:01:51
2021-05-25 · The Anthropocene Reviewed, Animated — John: Tempting as it is to make labyrinthitis a metaphor for a life lacking balance, John wrote against such symbolization of disease in his novels: OCD and cancer are illnesses to live with as well as one can, not battles or character flaws. — 00:05:41
2021-08-03 · I L*** Hank — John: Esther died a few weeks after the first Esther Day in 2010, aged 16; her parents then founded This Star Won't Go Out, which gives direct financial support to families of kids with cancer. — 00:00:58
2021-08-03 · I L*** Hank — John: Childhood cancer treatment can be very expensive in the US, with indirect costs such as a parent leaving work; the charity helps families spend more time with their kids. — 00:00:58
2021-08-03 · I L*** Hank — John sees the response in thousands celebrating Esther Day, the community's commitment to child health including pediatric cancer care in impoverished communities, and support for This Star Won't Go Out. — 00:02:26
2021-09-28 · 11 Great Books You Probably Haven't Read — recommendation: John: Julia Baird's Phosphorescence also treats us as participants in reality, not observers: it is about living with cancer, creatures that make their own light and the science of human joy. — 00:01:56

2022

2022-01-11 · The Fault in Our Stars - Ten Years Later — John: Citing Susan Sontag's Illness as Metaphor, John says it was commonly believed as late as the 1970s that cancer came from not being loved enough or from immoral behavior; the same was true of cholera and epilepsy. — 00:01:56
2022-01-11 · The Fault in Our Stars - Ten Years Later — John's dad had cancer twice when John was a kid, so he saw people keep their distance though it wasn't contagious, and invent reasons for his dad's cancer to reassure themselves. — 00:02:26
2022-02-25 · When You Can't Fix Everything… — Hank: Partners In Health employs over 17,000 doctors in 11 countries, working on everything from cancer treatment to preventing malnutrition. (doubtful: over 17,000) — 00:01:37
2022-08-03 · Why is it So Hard to Say 'I Love You'? — Hank explains that Esther Earl, an early community member, died of cancer in 2010, and asked how to celebrate her birthday, chose non-romantic love: a Valentine's Day for all other kinds of love. — 00:01:56

2023

2023-05-19 · So, I've got cancer — The description says Hank's first chemotherapy treatment begins as the video goes live. — video description
2023-05-19 · So, I've got cancer — The description reports that a PET/CT scan showed the cancer has not spread from its original location in Hank's left armpit/chest area. — video description
2023-05-19 · So, I've got cancer — announcement: Hank announces the biopsy showed cancer: Hodgkin's lymphoma, a cancer of the lymphatic system and one of the most treatable cancers; the goal of treatment is cure. — 00:01:53
2023-05-19 · So, I've got cancer — announcement: Hank will very soon start the fairly well-established treatment, a system of chemotherapies; he does not look forward to it but looks forward to starting on the path. — 00:02:37
2023-05-19 · So, I've got cancer — Hank: Friends who have been through cancer all told Hank that treatment is his job now: take it one day at a time and have no obligations, only optional things to do. — 00:05:10
2023-05-19 · So, I've got cancer — announcement: Hank does not know whether he will make Vlogbrothers videos, Dear Hank and John, SciShow or Tangents during treatment; he is playing it by ear. (unsure) — 00:06:14
2023-05-19 · So, I've got cancer — announcement: Hank says his chemotherapy will last no less than four months. — 00:07:58
2023-05-19 · So, I've got cancer — Hank feels very grateful to everyone who has spent their careers studying disease, cancer, lymphoma and Hodgkin's specifically. — 00:10:45
2023-05-23 · Rough Week — John: After a rough week and couple of months, John tells Hank, who is starting chemo, that he loves him and that many people are in his corner. — 00:00:00
2023-05-23 · Rough Week — John: Less intentionally funny: the brothers' YouTube account effectively said sorry about the cancer but congratulations on the views, with confetti. (playful) — 00:00:58
2023-05-23 · Rough Week — John says their dad had cancer twice when the brothers were little. — 00:01:08
2023-05-23 · Rough Week — announcement: John asks people to spare a thought for the employees of DFTBA and Complexly, who now have him, a store-brand Hank Green, as temporary CEO. (playful) — 00:02:55
2023-05-26 · My Cancer Press Tier List — Hank says ranking the articles about his own cancer diagnosis in a tier list is a once-in-a-lifetime chance, which he decided on when the New York Post article came out. (playful) — 00:00:00
2023-05-26 · My Cancer Press Tier List — Hank: A week after his first chemo, Hank feels much better than a few days ago; chemo has been pretty miserable, but he is getting amazing care and much support. — 00:04:31
2023-05-30 · How Does He Do It? — John has been helping out with some of Hank's jobs because of Hank's chemotherapy and can hardly believe Hank does all of it. — 00:00:00
2023-06-02 (said on 2023-06-01, implied) · Chemo is Weird, Y'all — Hank's chemotherapy hits him hard on a Friday, then he gets a Friday off, then he is dosed hard again the Friday after. — 00:00:00
2023-06-02 (said on 2023-06-01, implied) · Chemo is Weird, Y'all — Hank explains that his four chemo drugs interfere with rapidly dividing cells, mostly cancer cells but also some normal cells, which makes patients feel sick. — 00:00:00
2023-06-02 (said on 2023-06-01, implied) · Chemo is Weird, Y'all — The description says Hank is posting the video from the infusion center while receiving chemotherapy. — video description
2023-06-02 (said on 2023-06-01, implied) · Chemo is Weird, Y'all — Hank feels nearly normal now, before his next dose at 9 a.m. tomorrow. — 00:00:29
2023-06-02 (said on 2023-06-01, implied) · Chemo is Weird, Y'all — Hank: For Hank the biggest and hardest side effect is fatigue: it does not feel possible to be that tired. — 00:03:01
2023-06-13 · touched by a king — John says Hank's swollen lymph nodes turned out to be lymphoma, but almost always swollen lymph nodes are no big deal, just the body dealing with an infection. — 00:01:43
2023-06-13 · touched by a king — John tells Hank he is super pissed off that Hank got cancer, but grateful to the people who accumulated, shared and built on each other's knowledge for a healthier world. — 00:03:08
2023-06-16 · So, About This HAIR… — Hank writes it is too early to tell how well treatment is going, but early signs indicate his cancer cells are responding well, meaning dying a bunch. (hedged) — video description
2023-06-20 · Reflections from a Terrible CEO — John says all these people were led by CEO Hank Green until Hank was 'fired by cancer', which demanded months of grueling treatment. (playful) — 00:00:15
2023-06-20 · Reflections from a Terrible CEO — John says Hank pre-made a Vlogbrothers video because he knew he would be too sick to make one this week (week of 19 June 2023). — 00:04:45
2023-06-23 · Understanding Cancer Survival Rates — Hank says that since his diagnosis he has noticed people's main concern is whether cancer kills; survival rate is a top autocomplete, but survival rates are complicated. — 00:00:00
2023-06-23 · Understanding Cancer Survival Rates — Hank writes that cancer, though spoken of as one thing, is hundreds of diseases: not a disease but a way for disease to happen. — video description
2023-06-23 · Understanding Cancer Survival Rates — Hank argues different cancers are completely different diseases, so statistics defined consistently across cancers contain less information than we imagine. — 00:04:52
2023-06-23 · Understanding Cancer Survival Rates — Hank says his Hodgkin lymphoma is stage 2A with no bulky disease (no X), which is great. — 00:06:50
2023-06-23 · Understanding Cancer Survival Rates — Hank says some cancers, especially in older people, are now treated as chronic diseases because curative treatment would cost too much quality of life or risk death. — 00:07:48
2023-06-23 · Understanding Cancer Survival Rates — Hank says a person of his age with his stage of Hodgkin lymphoma has about a 94% five-year survival rate and about a 90% chance of five-year disease-free survival. — 00:10:49
2023-06-23 · Understanding Cancer Survival Rates — Hank credits decades of work by researchers and patients, to whom he is forever in debt, for making today the best time in human history to get cancer. — 00:11:18
2023-06-27 · Alone on the Cancer Boat: A Vlogbrothers Reunion — John says that although Hank is tolerating treatment brilliantly, without the 'but': this sucks, and Hank gets really sick. — 00:01:36
2023-06-27 · Alone on the Cancer Boat: A Vlogbrothers Reunion — John says it was hard to tell which diseases would turn out easy to cure: after antibiotics, people tried the same with cancer and viruses and found they couldn't. — 00:04:39
2023-06-27 · Alone on the Cancer Boat: A Vlogbrothers Reunion — John says the failure to cure cancer feels like a conspiracy, but it isn't; it is just hard. — 00:04:39
2023-06-27 · Alone on the Cancer Boat: A Vlogbrothers Reunion — Hank says cancer is not one disease like strep throat but many; calling it one disease is like calling viruses one disease. — 00:05:07
2023-06-27 · Alone on the Cancer Boat: A Vlogbrothers Reunion — John says a family member was just diagnosed with basal cell carcinoma, a cancer whose survival rate is 100%, so nobody says they have cancer. — 00:05:07
2023-06-27 · Alone on the Cancer Boat: A Vlogbrothers Reunion — Hank reports a new chemo symptom: for the first time in his life, two ocular migraines, with auras and no pain while they were happening; it felt like hallucinating, in both eyes, so a brain problem. — 00:09:05
2023-06-30 · Bon Your Vivant — The description marks the last chemo day of Hank's current treatment plan; he expects a terrible week, then radiation, plus an important scan next week (week of 3 July 2023) whose results will take a scary while. — video description
2023-07-07 · What to Get for a Cancer Patient — Hank says he wants to hear advice from people who have had Hodgkin's lymphoma and ABVD, his chemo regimen; talking with people who have been through cancer has been very helpful. — 00:06:05
2023-07-14 · The Good News Video — Hank says people at J&J have worked far harder on multidrug-resistant TB than he has, and infectious-disease researchers could probably earn more on baldness cures or cancer research, so he doesn't want to be mad at the whole company: writing it off is wrong. — 00:01:53
2023-07-14 · The Good News Video — Hank says his lymphoma responded well and he has had the last chemo of his treatment plan, needing only four sessions. — 00:04:14
2023-07-14 · The Good News Video — Hank: Showing his scans, Hank explains that dark areas on a PET scan mark high glucose uptake, since cancer cells use far more glucose than normal tissue. — 00:04:43
2023-07-28 · Let's Try Radiation Therapy! — Hank says his hospital has a secret special entrance for cancer patients at the bottom of the parking garage; the first time, he thought he would have to find another way in. — 00:00:00
2023-07-28 · Let's Try Radiation Therapy! — Hank says it takes a while to absorb being a cancer patient; at first it doesn't seem like that is you, though the hospital's signage keeps driving it home. — 00:00:13
2023-07-28 · Let's Try Radiation Therapy! — Hank tells John that today was his very first radiation therapy appointment, which was weird. — 00:00:29
2023-07-28 · Let's Try Radiation Therapy! — Hank recaps that chemotherapy killed so much of his cancer that doctors can no longer find it inside him. — 00:00:35
2023-07-28 · Let's Try Radiation Therapy! — Hank says his doctors think he likely still has microscopic disease, probably centered where his lymph nodes were very swollen. (hedged) — 00:00:43
2023-07-28 · Let's Try Radiation Therapy! — Hank explains that cancer cells are more susceptible to radiation than regular cells, so the beam damages some regular cells too but hurts the cancer cells worse. — 00:01:06
2023-07-28 · Let's Try Radiation Therapy! — Hank says being 43 also helps: a seven-year-old would have 80 years to develop a secondary cancer from radiation, he only about half that, so his chances are lower. — 00:03:25
2023-07-28 · Let's Try Radiation Therapy! — Hank says treating cancer is not about maximizing the chance of cure but about maximizing it while minimizing the chance of severe side effects. — 00:03:33
2023-07-28 · Let's Try Radiation Therapy! — Hank lists side effects of treatment that can kill: heart failure needing a transplant, secondary cancers more dangerous than his current one, pulmonary embolism and stroke. — 00:03:54
2023-07-28 · Let's Try Radiation Therapy! — Hank concludes that cancer treatment, like a lot of things, is less about decisions than about trade-offs. — 00:04:09
2023-08-03 · I love you, Hank. Happy Esther Day. — John says this Esther Day hits different: Hank's cancer diagnosis reminded them life is fragile and that they are fortunate in the people they share life with. — 00:01:27
2023-08-03 · I love you, Hank. Happy Esther Day. — John says their dad had cancer twice when they were little, which had a huge impact on his life and theirs. — 00:01:59
2023-08-03 · I love you, Hank. Happy Esther Day. — John says he has been reminded how hard cancer is for patients and those supporting them, because societal structures are not set up to support patients and families effectively. — 00:02:46
2023-08-03 · I love you, Hank. Happy Esther Day. — John says Esther's family set up This Star Won't Go Out, giving direct financial support to families of kids with cancer, and he understands better than ever how much it helps. — 00:02:46
2023-08-04 · The Biggest Science Story of the Week — Hank says it has been quite a year, though he is happy with the current trajectory. — 00:00:29
2023-08-08 · TAKE IT UP A NOTCH — John lists what took 2023 up a notch: Hank got cancer and had to have chemotherapy and radiation. (playful) — 00:00:00
2023-08-08 · TAKE IT UP A NOTCH — John says they have both seen comments blaming Hank's cancer on a vaccination, on working too hard, or on his ulcerative colitis. — 00:01:56
2023-08-08 · TAKE IT UP A NOTCH — John stresses that such comments have been very rare for Hank and that almost everyone has been extraordinarily supportive. — 00:02:26
2023-08-08 · TAKE IT UP A NOTCH — John says Hank's experience is not typical: with HIV, cancer, tuberculosis or another highly stigmatized disease, the social response is part of what makes the illness so difficult. — 00:02:26
2023-08-11 · It's About a YouTuber with Cancer — The description says Hank is off to get the final radiation of his current treatment plan. — video description
2023-08-11 · It's About a YouTuber with Cancer — Hank says cancer is named after crabs, and that in the medieval period ordinary people simply called cancer 'the wolf'. — 00:00:44
2023-08-22 · The Panera Phenomenon — The description says John made the video before the news was public that Hank is in remission; John is grateful and relieved and hopes Hank will talk about it on Friday. — video description
2023-08-25 · Remission — Hank announces that this week (week of 21 August 2023) his doctor told him he is in complete remission from his cancer. — 00:01:14
2023-08-25 · Remission — Hank: Showing his before scan, Hank explains a PET scan shows glucose uptake; his cancer mass consumed a lot of glucose because it was dividing fast. — 00:01:33
2023-08-25 · Remission — Hank says chemotherapy has significantly raised his lifelong chances of heart and lung disease, leukemia and other cancers, as does having had cancer once. — 00:02:47
2023-08-25 · Remission — Hank: Asked whether there is cancer inside him now, Hank says he is also confused: nobody knows whether cancer remains, whether his immune system will clear it, or whether he will relapse. (unsure) — 00:04:41
2023-09-01 · The Weirdest Post-Chemo Symptoms — Hank expected side effects from cancer and chemotherapy but did not realize there would be side effects to stopping chemotherapy and no longer having cancer. — 00:00:26
2023-09-05 · I Ain't Even Here, Sergeant. I'm in Cheyenne, Wyoming. — John praises Hank's new beard: Hank looks different because he is different, moving through a profound, difficult experience and looking good; he might go full Tom Selleck. — 00:03:38
2023-09-22 · A Feeling I've Never Felt Before — The description says Hank has a new kind of pain after radiation, unlike muscle pain he has had before, and because it is new it is hard to deal with. — video description
2023-09-22 · A Feeling I've Never Felt Before — Hank says having cancer has brought a whole bunch of new sensations, ways of feeling he had never felt before. — 00:01:08
2023-09-26 · THE REVEAL — Hank says going bald, then having his hair grow back and suddenly getting facial hair, has shown him his face in many different ways, as if he were a different person. — 00:00:58
2023-09-29 · Like Apocalyptic Horsemen — John tells Hank he is extremely grateful, relieved and happy that Hank is, at least for the foreseeable future, through chemo and doing so well. — 00:00:58
2023-09-29 · Like Apocalyptic Horsemen — John says his 2007 self also could not know the terrible and hard things ahead, such as Hank getting cancer. — 00:03:33
2023-10-06 · I Quit — Hank says he has not been working at full capacity while transitioning out of cancer treatment into recovery; he doesn't always feel as well as he looks, and recovery takes time. — 00:00:00
2023-10-06 · I Quit — In a channel comment Hank says he got the news he was in remission and immediately hurt himself at the gym. (playful) — creator comment
2023-10-06 · I Quit — Hank says the CEO interviews ran alongside finding a lymph node, a biopsy and his diagnosis on May 4, the day before his birthday; on his birthday he went to work for a long meeting about recruiting the CEO. — 00:02:00
2023-10-06 · I Quit — Hank says he expected to resume as CEO after treatment, not realizing that recovery from cancer treatment takes time. — 00:05:23
2023-10-06 · I Quit — Hank says he will fill the time: he had two bizarre but not terrible business ideas during chemotherapy and did cancer stand-up comedy before finishing radiation. — 00:06:21
2023-10-13 · Cancer Made me Do It. — Hank is in Buffalo, New York, to do previously scheduled stand-up comedy; it doesn't feel like a fun time to be funny, but he'll do it anyway. — 00:00:00
2023-10-13 · Cancer Made me Do It. — Hank says he ended up writing a 70-minute stand-up show about cancer, for a couple of reasons. — 00:00:12
2023-10-13 · Cancer Made me Do It. — Hank: During chemotherapy Hank expected to want long-form content, but he was so physically unwell and foggy that he couldn't enjoy things and had no attention span. — 00:00:16
2023-10-13 · Cancer Made me Do It. — Hank: Until cancer Hank was broken only in normal little ways; cancer has given him new issues, which may be healing or just being buried again. — 00:01:50
2023-10-13 · Cancer Made me Do It. — Hank says he needed something very complicated but very simple, like making people laugh about cancer. — 00:02:26
2023-10-13 · Cancer Made me Do It. — announcement: Hank: Rather than announcing tour dates as such a video usually would, Hank doesn't think he is going to tour the show, for a couple of reasons. (hedged) — 00:02:55
2023-10-13 · Cancer Made me Do It. — Hank's doctor said he should avoid stress if possible because it can increase the chance of relapse, a big deal to him; comedy is fun on stage but not relaxing. — 00:02:58
2023-10-13 · Cancer Made me Do It. — announcement: Hank is doing a two-stop tour while in upstate New York, where he was already going to do a thing at Rochester Institute of Technology. — 00:04:25
2023-10-20 · My 'Injury' — Hank says this morning, watching an old Vlogbrothers video with him, his son Orin said that was Dada before his injury, and Hank did not know what to say. — 00:00:00
2023-10-20 · My 'Injury' — The description says Hank responded to his cancer diagnosis by reading about 20 nonfiction books on how cancers work. — video description
2023-10-20 · My 'Injury' — The description says the overarching thing those books all knew but rarely said is that 'cancer' is a dumb word. — video description
2023-10-20 · My 'Injury' — In a channel comment, Hank says the data do not show cancer is predominantly metabolic: almost all cancers involve both poor DNA repair and odd metabolism, and diet cannot control it. — creator comment
2023-10-20 · My 'Injury' — Hank says that to Orin it made sense: while Hank was ill Daddy couldn't do much, parts of him hurt badly and he couldn't pick him up or wrestle; they called it cancer without explaining what cancer was. — 00:00:13
2023-10-20 · My 'Injury' — Hank says everyone is confused about cancer, epitomized by still calling cancers 'cancer', and he is on a mission to get this to stop. — 00:00:29
2023-10-20 · My 'Injury' — Hank says there is no such thing as cancer, just as there is no such thing as virus: there are cancers and viruses, as you get an injury, not injury. — 00:00:45
2023-10-20 · My 'Injury' — Hank says cancer is anywhere between hundreds and billions of diseases. — 00:01:00
2023-10-20 · My 'Injury' — Hank says the lower count reflects common pathways to cancer; classical Hodgkin lymphoma is one, so its cells behave alike and patients have similar prognoses and treatment responses. — 00:01:05
2023-10-20 · My 'Injury' — Hank says the upper count reflects that every cancer is genetically distinct, so two people with the same kind of classical Hodgkin lymphoma can respond differently to treatment. — 00:01:27
2023-10-20 · My 'Injury' — Hank says by the time a cancer is advanced there is much genetic variation within the body's cancer population, which is why late-stage cancer is so hard to treat. — 00:01:50
2023-10-20 · My 'Injury' — Hank grants this will seem pedantic, but says calling cancers 'cancer' does harm in at least two clear ways he has experienced. — 00:02:06
2023-10-20 · My 'Injury' — Hank says first, people who watched someone die of a cancer assume another person's cancer will go the same way, creating hopelessness and sometimes resistance to treatment. — 00:02:14
2023-10-20 · My 'Injury' — Hank says second, it breeds the belief that despite huge money and effort we have failed to cure cancer; that is wrong, because cancer is not a disease but a kind of disease. — 00:02:40
2023-10-20 · My 'Injury' — Hank compares cancer to bacterial infections: most are curable but some aren't and people still die of them; likewise some cancers can be cured, some cannot, many in between. — 00:03:05
2023-10-20 · My 'Injury' — Hank says the US recently passed a milestone: more than half of people diagnosed with cancer will not be killed by it, either cured or dying with it rather than of it. — 00:03:25
2023-10-20 · My 'Injury' — Hank says, though it sounds nihilistic, a cure for cancer cannot exist because there are at least hundreds of different cancers: we must cure cancers, which is more work. — 00:03:35
2023-10-20 · My 'Injury' — Hank says, weirdly, calling his cancer an injury is more accurate for him than calling it cancer, since we understand that not all injuries are the same. — 00:04:00
2023-10-24 · A Tale of Two Cancers — John agrees with Hank's point that cancer is not really a disease but a category of diseases. — 00:00:08
2023-10-24 · A Tale of Two Cancers — John recalls that for about a week they knew Hank had some cancer but not which one: another lymphoma, or a metastatic cancer spread to his lymph nodes. — 00:00:13
2023-10-24 · A Tale of Two Cancers — John says access to cancer care is inequitable everywhere, but most people who get cancer live in low and middle income countries, where appropriate care can be very hard to access. — 00:00:50
2023-10-24 · A Tale of Two Cancers — John says much had to go right for Mondeh to survive: a correct diagnosis, though early diagnosis, often called vital in cancer care, is basically impossible in such circumstances. — 00:02:38
2023-10-24 · A Tale of Two Cancers — John says Hank made clear in that first call that the same cancer in two people in different circumstances is not really the same cancer: different standards of care mean different outcomes. — 00:04:00
2023-10-27 · I Keep Thinking About Taylor Swift — Hank recalls that when he first got sick and was losing his hair, people sent him lots of hats, which seemed pointless in summer; he still has them now that it is cold. (playful) — 00:00:12
2023-11-03 · We Need to talk about Sarapocial Relationships — Hank says keeping something for himself was forced on him by others rather than chosen, but that has changed some since he got sick, which he thinks is probably healthy. — 00:05:07
2023-11-10 · My Final Chemo Secret — Hank says going through chemotherapy was the worst thing that has ever happened to his body: it sucks immediately, gets a little better, then always a little worse. — 00:00:03
2023-11-10 · My Final Chemo Secret — announcement: Hank announces that 100% of the profit from the socks will go towards making cancer treatment more available to more people. — 00:02:53
2023-11-17 · WHAT AM I DOING — Hank says some days he doesn't know what his job is; after finishing cancer treatment he has stepped back asking what he is doing and whether this is his life. — 00:00:00
2023-11-17 · WHAT AM I DOING — Hank says that also happens at 43, and he turned 43 the day before he was diagnosed with cancer; this is new and he doesn't love it. — 00:00:16
2023-11-21 · Minus Its Charms — John says Casey McIntyre, a young woman he knew a little, has just died of cancer; she was married to his friend Andrew Rose Gregory and worked for years at John's publishing house. — 00:02:33
2023-12-05 · MASSIVE Tuberculosis News — John thinks the study matters not only for TB treatment but for how to speed up innovation in treating other diseases, from malaria to cancer. — 00:00:00
2023-12-05 · MASSIVE Tuberculosis News — John says cancer treatment shows the same pattern: trials of new patentable compounds always have incentive, but testing existing compounds in new combinations or dosages is much harder to fund. — 00:03:24
2023-12-05 · MASSIVE Tuberculosis News — John says such trials need better funding: public money and private donations have funded many in cancer but more is needed, and neglected diseases like TB need massive investment. — 00:04:22
2023-12-08 · Did Natural Cancer Treatments Save My Life? — Hank tells John that he got cancer, by far the worst thing that has ever happened to his body; untreated, he would be on his way to dying. (playful) — 00:00:00
2023-12-08 · Did Natural Cancer Treatments Save My Life? — The description says Hank is so happy to be cancer free, at the moment anyway, because chemotherapy exploded the cancer cells. (hedged) — video description
2023-12-08 · Did Natural Cancer Treatments Save My Life? — Hank says cancers are high-impact, sneaky diseases needing high-impact treatment, and the slow, tedious work of medical research made his treatment far less awful than 10 years ago. — 00:02:09
2023-12-08 · Did Natural Cancer Treatments Save My Life? — Hank says most cancer cases on Earth, and an even greater majority of cancer deaths, occur outside high-income countries. — 00:04:47
2023-12-19 · End of a Rough Year — John tells Hank this has surely been the hardest year of Hank's life, brutal, and one of the hardest of John's own. — 00:04:25
2023-12-22 · Let's Talk About Death — Hank: Before getting sick Hank thought he had a good grasp on what life was for, but once close to the edge he was amazed how quickly he lost it. — 00:00:54
2023-12-22 · Let's Talk About Death — announcement: Hank says he is doing his cancer stand-up in Southern California, with more shows to be booked and announced when they go live. — 00:03:57

2024

2024-01-05 · I'm Scared of 2024...So Here's 3 Optimistic Thoughts — announcement: Hank announces he will be in Southern California in a couple of weeks performing his one-man stand-up comedy show about cancer in Oxnard, Brea, San Diego and downtown Los Angeles. — 00:06:38
2024-01-12 · How to Detect AI Images (and why it doesn't matter) — announcement: Hank will be in Los Angeles next week (week of 15 January 2024); all his shows have sold out and he can't wait to see those coming. — 00:05:05
2024-01-26 · On YouTuber Retirement — Hank: After cancer treatment Hank wrote 90 minutes of stand-up about cancer to prove he can still do hard things and his brain still works, and to get something good out of the bad. (playful) — 00:00:00
2024-01-26 · On YouTuber Retirement — Hank was relieved to get the special recorded because he needed the deadline to finish the show; two shows were recorded to be cut together, and he wrote the last words only as he said them on stage. — 00:01:05
2024-02-16 · How Much Does it Cost to be a Nerdfighter — announcement: Hank: Because cancer got in the way, they could not deliver last year's (2023) Hank and John's Raxcellent Adventure perk, so it is offered again; last year's (2023) buyers were emailed. — 00:06:04
2024-02-23 · The Juiciest Hank in the World — announcement: Hank will perform his show at Comedy Works South on March 18 for people in Denver, Colorado Springs and Boulder. — 00:05:21
2024-03-15 · The Worst Things About Not Having Cancer — Hank says it has been more than four months since his last scan declared him in remission from Hodgkin lymphoma; that beats the alternative, but some things about it he doesn't like. — 00:00:00
2024-03-15 · The Worst Things About Not Having Cancer — Hank says in Missoula he was extremely well taken care of during treatment: he saw his doctor at least twice a month and was getting scans, chemo and radiation. — 00:00:58
2024-03-15 · The Worst Things About Not Having Cancer — Hank's first and worst point: during treatment, hard-working, high-status people fretting over you makes you feel valued; after remission, being plopped back into normality feels like being ignored. — 00:00:58
2024-03-15 · The Worst Things About Not Having Cancer — Hank says it is not unusual for cancer treatment to cause lifelong disability. — 00:04:25
2024-03-29 · The 17 Weirdest Things I Learned at the Zoo — Hank: The Denver Zoo's king cobra got scale cancer; keepers biopsied it, removed the cancerous area surgically and gave adjuvant chemotherapy. — 00:02:28
2024-04-23 · Full Hank — John notes that Hank found out he had cancer almost exactly one year ago (April 2023). — 00:00:00
2024-04-23 · Full Hank — John: When Hank was diagnosed, John took on a few of Hank's many jobs and enjoyed the work so much that he seems to have gone 'full Hank'. — 00:00:00
2024-04-26 · One Year Out. — Hank says Missoula holds a yearly parade where children and adults dress as animals; last year (2023) it fell the day after he learned he probably had cancer, before it was certain. — 00:00:00
2024-04-26 · One Year Out. — Hank says that as the anniversaries arrive, many things will remind him of the last year; that is scary and makes him wonder how he would deal with a relapse, online and in his body. — 00:01:13
2024-05-10 · Three Whole Onions with Secretary Pete Buttigieg — Hank says he had a 'cheap cancer', scans being the costliest part, plus flexible work, support systems and money, so he didn't have to worry. — 00:11:44
2024-05-24 · An Ancient Apocalypse — Hank says they had not done much big birthday celebrating in recent years, but last year (2023) on Katherine's birthday he got his chemo port placed, so celebrating felt right. — 00:00:00
2024-05-28 · A Midlife Crisis — John says his little brother getting cancer made him consider his life and work in an appropriately finite context. — 00:00:29
2024-05-31 · The People I Hate Most in the World — Hank says he does not think anyone would ever tell him a mean tweet helped them through a tough time, nor that a nurse during his cancer treatment would say a brutal takedown video of his helped them through nursing school. — 00:02:26
2024-06-14 · Some Reasons why People Suck — Hank says he is coming out of a few weeks of brain fog, fatigue and discomfort, maybe post-chemo, maybe normal depression; in survivorship you don't know what your body is telling you. (hedged) — 00:07:24
2024-06-21 · I Was So Sad that I Did Comedy — Hank tells an unshared moment: after an ultrasound suggested cancer, he asked his normal doctor before biopsy results whether he would be dead in a month; she could not say for sure. — 00:00:00
2024-06-21 · I Was So Sad that I Did Comedy — The description says Hank's head still isn't entirely on straight, but he learned how lucky he is in opportunities, support and a brain almost always interested in stuff. — video description
2024-06-21 · I Was So Sad that I Did Comedy — Hank says cancer treatment made it hard to enjoy anything: nausea, fatigue, constant discomfort and a powerful brain fog that made focusing hard. — 00:01:05
2024-06-21 · I Was So Sad that I Did Comedy — Hank: Finishing chemo, Hank worked on stand-up with friend Sarah Aswell, booked Missoula's Roxy, and grew from 10 to 30 minutes into the bones of a 60-minute special. — 00:04:22
2024-06-21 · I Was So Sad that I Did Comedy — Hank's first reason for doing the special: more people should talk openly and honestly about cancer, and he is glad to be one of them. — 00:05:49
2024-06-21 · I Was So Sad that I Did Comedy — announcement: Hank announces his comedy special is out on Dropout today and viewers can watch it now. — 00:06:37
2024-06-25 · taking a break — John congratulates Hank on his comedy special: it is so good and John is so proud of him. — 00:00:00
2024-08-03 · I Love Hank. (Also I'm back.) — John recounts that in 2010 the community created a holiday on the birthday of nerdfighter Esther Earl, who was dying of cancer and was asked what holiday she wanted. — 00:00:20
2024-08-03 · I Love Hank. (Also I'm back.) — John says saying 'I love you' has become easier since Hank got cancer: they are more aware it is silly not to tell people you love that you love them. — 00:00:58
2024-08-03 · I Love Hank. (Also I'm back.) — John: The celebration will also discuss This Star Won't Go Out, the charity Esther's family founded in her memory, which financially supports kids with cancer and their families. — 00:02:45
2024-08-07 · Dear Hank and John Livestream! — Hank says his TikTok star shone brightly, then he got cancer and Vlogbrothers had its biggest subscriber day in ten years. (playful) — 00:08:09
2024-08-07 · Dear Hank and John Livestream! — Hank says one man who disliked his comedy special keeps saying so publicly; Hank knows who he is and weighs him more than those who liked it. — 00:25:44
2024-10-08 · Hank Steals John's Cells — Hank says if he relapses he will probably need an autologous stem cell transplant, his own marrow cleaned of cancer and put back, so he would need no donor. (hedged) — 00:01:00
2024-10-08 · Hank Steals John's Cells — Hank says his cancer is neither past nor present: he is in remission, and nobody can know for sure whether cancer cells remain in his body. — 00:01:30
2024-10-08 · Hank Steals John's Cells — Hank says that because he had cancer, the registry does not want his bone marrow. — 00:05:03
2024-10-29 · If Hank and John Were God for 15 Minutes — both: Hank adds that small people would use a third of the consumption; John that with fewer cells they would probably live longer; and Hank that they would get less cancer, as a chihuahua outlives a mastiff. (playful, hedged) — 00:02:00
2024-10-30 · Sipping the Tea with Hank — Hank: Asked about his curls, Hank says they seem to be going; after he wore a hat recently, his straightened hair looked like pre-cancer Hank. — 00:07:46
2024-11-01 · Working Through a Crisis with My Brother — John reminds Hank that he just got better from cancer, and that intense anxiety is really common afterwards. — 00:01:52
2024-11-01 · Working Through a Crisis with My Brother — Hank says he found when he was sick that if he could be interested he was doing okay; curiosity isn't about identity or status. — 00:06:49
2024-11-03 · Hank's very messy post-cancer year of mistakes, meaning… — Hank: After cancer treatment Hank felt bad but much better by comparison, with lots of energy, and more aware that his life is finite than before cancer. — 00:00:58
2024-11-03 · Hank's very messy post-cancer year of mistakes, meaning… — Hank: In the last year Hank worked on a book about cancer biology and treatment, and wrote, toured, recorded and released a stand-up special, learning to be a comedian. — 00:01:35
2024-11-03 · Hank's very messy post-cancer year of mistakes, meaning… — Hank wants to feel less anxious; cancer didn't help: he has more anxiety now, as if the muscle grew stronger during diagnosis and treatment. — 00:05:46
2024-11-29 · I am Grateful for My Worry — Hank says he also won the 'got cancer' lottery, but only after winning the lottery of being born when and where chemo was available, so it balances. (playful) — 00:00:00
2024-12-10 · On Writing — John: Rereading, John sees the book continues 20 years of his work, extending his fascination with illness: cancer in The Fault in Our Stars, OCD in Turtles All the Way Down, plagues in The Anthropocene Reviewed. — 00:02:39
2024-12-13 · TIL Some People Have an 'Inner Monologue' — Hank says he is fine, though not a hundred percent; he has been better, he is fine physically, and they are getting through it. — 00:05:10
2024-12-13 · TIL Some People Have an 'Inner Monologue' — Hank says that now whenever he tells people he is not doing well he has to add that he does not have cancer. (playful) — 00:05:20

2025

2025-01-24 · Am I OK? — Hank says he finished chemo about 18 months ago and is probably about as recovered as he will get, which is pretty good. (hedged) — 00:00:00
2025-01-24 · Am I OK? — Hank says that body-wise, aside from an increased risk of secondary cancers, he is pretty much unscathed. — 00:00:51
2025-01-24 · Am I OK? — Hank says people miss that after cancer treatment people almost always live with a different level of ability, sometimes serious disability: being done with treatment is not being done. — 00:00:51
2025-01-24 · Am I OK? — announcement: Hank, a fan of Dropout, says he got to do his comedy special there and is in the next season of Smartypants. — 00:03:30
2025-03-25 · Taylor, Dr Pepper, and My Anxiety Strats: It's Question Tuesday — John: Asked what to focus on if TB were eliminated, John says TB is by no means the only disease of injustice: cancer is one too. — 00:03:24
2025-03-25 · Taylor, Dr Pepper, and My Anxiety Strats: It's Question Tuesday — John recalls that when Hank got Hodgkin lymphoma he said it has a 93% cure rate for those who can access treatment and a 20-70% cure rate in low- and middle-income countries. — 00:03:24
2025-04-18 · I Still Don't Have Cancer (and I'm Still Scared) — Hank says the lymph nodes under his tongue have been a little swollen and sore for the last few weeks. — 00:00:00
2025-04-18 · I Still Don't Have Cancer (and I'm Still Scared) — Hank: Still nervous, and nearing his two-year mark, Hank called and took the first oncology appointment available. — 00:00:58
2025-04-18 · I Still Don't Have Cancer (and I'm Still Scared) — Hank's empathetic oncologist checked his lymph nodes, now the only monitoring he needs given his cancer, stage and scans, and found them all perfectly normal: no current signs of cancer. — 00:01:27
2025-04-18 · I Still Don't Have Cancer (and I'm Still Scared) — Hank says last night in bed he felt more nervous than he had in a while, which made no sense since he had just been told he doesn't have cancer. — 00:02:58
2025-04-18 · I Still Don't Have Cancer (and I'm Still Scared) — Hank says before he got sick his anxiety was mostly his body usefully calling him to figure out something important; now it sometimes just calls out for no reason. — 00:04:10
2025-05-06 · Health CARE: Thoughts from Lima — John: If the AI flags a different lung abnormality such as pneumonia or cancer, the patient is triaged and referred to a hospital or clinic. — 00:00:58
2025-05-09 · OK, I MESSED UP. — Hank: After Hank got cancer and finished treatment, most of 2024 was his 'I'm not dead, I must do everything' year, and he pushed to get the book out. (playful) — 00:01:31
2025-05-16 · No One Knows When They Don't Die — Hank says he got a cancer, a disease often fatal, got medicine for it, and now seems likely to die of something else, so he knows he didn't die. (hedged) — 00:00:00
2025-05-23 · I Can’t Believe How Few People it Takes. — Hank was recently at his dermatologist for a skin check, because after his cancer treatment he has a higher than normal risk of melanoma. — 00:00:00
2025-08-01 · We Stole a Man's Blood — Hank says he has a much higher risk of someday needing a bone marrow transplant himself, but many people need one right now. — 00:03:10
2025-08-05 · ONE TAKE JOHNNY — Hank says his oncologist was younger than him; Hank thinks the doctor regarded him as young. — 00:11:36
2025-09-26 · I've Not Been Doing Well — Hank says he wanted to ignore it and not talk publicly before it was resolved, because everyone would freak out about cancer. — 00:03:36
2025-09-26 · I've Not Been Doing Well — Hank: Following his oncologist's advice to come in if anything feels weird, Hank had tests and blood work and was relieved to find he is still normal and in remission. — 00:04:25
2025-09-26 · I've Not Been Doing Well — Hank says one of the risk factors for relapse is stress, which he finds hard to avoid right now. — 00:04:25
2025-09-26 · I've Not Been Doing Well — Hank says that since cancer is not responsible for how he feels, it is something else, and he feels he has been improving. — 00:05:46
2025-10-03 · Is It Time to Retire? — John notes that Hank didn't take any time off even when he had cancer, so this may not be an issue for him. (playful) — 00:02:22
2025-10-07 · Luck vs. Work vs. Skill vs. Privilege — John argues deserving is the wrong framework for life: he doesn't deserve his merch sales or his OCD; Hank didn't deserve cancer or the number one app. — 00:05:16
2025-10-31 · We Did It… — Hank says about a thirtieth of the money spent on cancer treatment would be enough to cut the number of people with active TB by 80 or 90%. — 00:03:46
2025-10-31 · We Did It… — Hank says a case of cancer in the US costs north of $100,000 per patient, while TB costs around $1,000 per patient. — 00:03:46
2025-11-04 · The Real Question — John says we instead build systems where his brother can receive cutting-edge curative cancer care while for others the same diagnosis is a death sentence. — 00:03:53
2025-11-10 · My Cancer Treatment was Not Cutting Edge — Hank says John's video this week (week of 10 November 2025) said he got cutting-edge curative cancer therapy, and hopes that is only half wrong. (hedged) — 00:00:00
2025-11-10 · My Cancer Treatment was Not Cutting Edge — Hank explains that doctors call a cancer patient cured once the odds of recurrence fall low enough to be surprising; for most cancers this is about five years. — 00:00:00
2025-11-10 · My Cancer Treatment was Not Cutting Edge — Hank finds this super weird: someone who reaches five years was really cured from the moment treatment ended, not suddenly at five years. — 00:00:29
2025-11-10 · My Cancer Treatment was Not Cutting Edge — Hank says that after 10 years a returning cancer is treated as a second cancer rather than a relapse, with a different treatment. — 00:00:29
2025-11-10 · My Cancer Treatment was Not Cutting Edge — Hank is pretty sure he will turn out to have been cured all along: the odds of it going the other way are like rolling a one on a 20-sided die. (playful) — 00:00:58
2025-11-10 · My Cancer Treatment was Not Cutting Edge — Hank says the drugs are the same but the amount given has changed a lot since 1979, when the idea was to give as much as patients could handle for as long as they could. — 00:02:55
2025-11-10 · My Cancer Treatment was Not Cutting Edge — Hank says the drugs he took carry serious long-term risks: possible permanent lung or heart-muscle damage and higher risk of other cancers. — 00:03:24
2025-11-10 · My Cancer Treatment was Not Cutting Edge — Hank: Had he gotten sick maybe 20 years earlier, Hank would probably have had about six months of treatment; he had two months of chemo then targeted radiation, cutting his long-term risks. (hedged) — 00:03:53
2025-11-10 · My Cancer Treatment was Not Cutting Edge — Hank: The second component is how justly or unjustly those tools are distributed, from tuberculosis to cancer treatment to new ways to unblock blocked blood vessels. — 00:04:50
2025-11-28 · Three Things! (Wait, no, actually four...) — announcement: Hank: As this year's (2025) cancer product, the compression socks' money helps people who would not normally have access to cancer care get it. — 00:02:23
2025-11-28 · Three Things! (Wait, no, actually four...) — announcement: Hank will do new stand-up material at Grace Helbig's stand-up night Cancer is a Joke, raising money for WeGotThis.org. — 00:02:52
2025-11-28 · Three Things! (Wait, no, actually four...) — Hank: After being told he could do QI, Hank got cancer and cancelled, actually ghosting them; once better he asked to do it again. — 00:04:21
2025-12-09 · Hank Green, from A to Z — John calls Pissing Out Cancer Hank's hit stand-up comedy special, which debuted on Dropout.TV. — 00:02:55
2025-12-12 · The Economics of a YouTube White Noise Video — Hank thanks Dropout for agreeing to his contract term letting him release his special on YouTube after a year of Dropout exclusivity. — 00:05:23
2025-12-12 · The Economics of a YouTube White Noise Video — announcement: Hank: With the year passed, Hank uploaded his special Pissing Out Cancer to Hank's channel yesterday (11 December 2025). — 00:05:23

2026

2026-02-13 · Project for Awesome 2026 Kickoff! — John offers 20 prints of the Good News Bridge, which his mother painted after learning Hank's cancer was treatable rather than the worst case; John and his parents were on a walk there when they heard. — 01:00:55
2026-02-13 · Project for Awesome 2026 Kickoff! — John says he has read a couple of versions of the manuscript of Hank's book about cancer, offered as a P4A perk, and calls it brilliant on how cancer works and what it wants. — 08:05:05
2026-02-13 · Project for Awesome 2026 Kickoff! — John: Correcting himself, John says he thinks cancer has existed for as long as there has been multicellular life. (hedged) — 08:06:01
2026-02-15 · Project for Awesome 2026 part 5! — John thinks Hank's book about cancer is going to light the world on fire, making a huge impact and changing many people's understanding of cancer and of living with it. — 02:47:01
2026-02-15 · Project for Awesome 2026 part 5! — Hank: Calling a single-digit percentage small, Hank jokes that it is what his doctor said his chance of not getting cancer again was. (joke) — 03:25:23
2026-02-15 · Project for Awesome 2026 part 5! — announcement: Hank says the digital downloads include an audiobook of John's novella Zombicorns and an audio version of the first two chapters of Hank's nonfiction book about the biology of cancer. — 04:12:08
2026-03-13 · Pain — Hank says he has missed plenty of Vlogbrothers videos, but during chemo he never missed one, partly because he was not feeling too bad to make them. — 00:01:47
2026-03-24 · How Panda Express Is Tuberculosis — John says The Fault in Our Stars is tuberculosis: he knew little about TB's contemporary problem when writing it, but was very interested in how 19th-century TB relates to cancer today. — 00:00:00
2026-03-24 · How Panda Express Is Tuberculosis — John was thinking about the romanticization of illness and how early-19th-century TB, striking people of any age and feeling capricious, resembles how we think about cancer today. — 00:00:29
2026-04-24 · The AI Question that No AI Person Asks — Hank: It will obviously be easier for AI to create a cancer drug than to get it to everyone who needs it; both are problems, since cancer is unaffected by a drug not given. — 00:07:28
2026-05-08 · My Deathday — Hank once thought it would be fun to party on the day he would have died without cancer treatment: had he been born 100 years ago, lived where Hodgkin's is mistaken for TB, or refused treatment. — 00:00:00
2026-05-08 · My Deathday — Hank says Hodgkin cells usually die under treatment but sometimes survive, which is why he is technically still in remission rather than cured. — 00:02:26
2026-06-19 · You Have to Poop in the Eiffel Tower — Hank notes Napoleon is buried nearby and died, remarkably, of cancer, when you'd expect a different death. (playful) — 00:05:07
2026-07-10 · How Status Destroys Us — Hank says The Fault in Our Stars is a book without a villain unless you count cancer, which neither he nor the book's characters really do. — 00:01:21
2026-07-10 · How Status Destroys Us — Hank says the book gives cancer no maliciousness or cunning: it evades control not by being smart or evil but by doing what it does, like a fire burning a home; fire can't be evil. — 00:01:50
2026-08-25 · The Great Thing about Infectious Disease — John: Preventing one person's cancer, for example through colonoscopy screening, does not protect the neighbor, but preventing a polio case by vaccination lowers the neighbor's risk too. — 00:00:00
2026-08-25 · The Great Thing about Infectious Disease — John: As recently as 1890 more Americans died of TB than of heart disease and cancer combined; TB not being a leading US cause of death is younger than Dr Pepper or Maxwell House. — 00:01:56
2026-09-08 · The Life Expectancy Lies That Won't Die — John: As a result, John says, people lived longer and the main causes of death shifted to chronic diseases like cancer and heart disease. — 00:01:56
2026-10-09 · The Productivity Lie — Hank: When Hank was sick and thought he might be nearer the end of his life, one of his few big regrets was not having done more of that supporting work. — 00:06:25
2026-10-09 · The Productivity Lie — Hank produces things not because productivity matters to him but because Pizzamas, Nerdfighteria, John, cancer treatment, Crash Course, SciShow, 4x3 and the media environment do. — 00:09:38