The Cheating Cell : : How Evolution Helps Us Understand and Treat Cancer / / Athena Aktipis.
A fundamental and groundbreaking reassessment of how we view and manage cancer When we think of the forces driving cancer, we don't necessarily think of evolution. But evolution and cancer are closely linked, for the historical processes that created life also created cancer. The Cheating Cell...
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Superior document: | Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter EBOOK PACKAGE COMPLETE 2020 English |
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Place / Publishing House: | Princeton, NJ : : Princeton University Press, , [2020] ©2019 |
Year of Publication: | 2020 |
Language: | English |
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Physical Description: | 1 online resource (256 p.) :; 19 b/w illus. |
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Table of Contents:
- Frontmatter
- CONTENTS
- Acknowledgments
- 1. Introduction: Evolution in the Flesh
- 2. Why Does Cancer Evolve?
- 3. Cheating in Multicellular Cooperation
- 4. Cancer from Womb to Tomb
- 5. Cancer across the Tree of Life
- 6. The Hidden World of Cancer Cells
- 7. How to Control Cancer
- Notes
- Bibliography
- Index