Description: Title: The Cheating Cell: How Evolution Helps Us Understand and Treat Cancer Author: Aktipis, Athena Publisher: Princeton University Press Binding: Paperback Pages: 256 Dimensions: 7.87h x 5.28w x 0.87d Product Weight: 0.45 lbs. Language: English ISBN: 9780691212197 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 because the historical processes that created life also created cancer. The Cheating Cell delves into this extraordinary relationship, and shows that by understanding cancer's evolutionary origins, researchers can come up with more effective, revolutionary treatments. Athena Aktipis goes back billions of years to explore when unicellular forms became multicellular organisms. Within these bodies of cooperating cells, cheating ones arose, overusing resources and replicating out of control, giving rise to cancer. Aktipis illustrates how evolution has paved the way for cancer's ubiquity, and why it will exist as long as multicellular life does. Even so, she argues, this doesn't mean we should give up on treating cancer--in fact, evolutionary approaches offer new and promising options for the disease's prevention and treatments that aim at long-term management rather than simple eradication. Looking across species--from sponges and cacti to dogs and elephants--we are discovering new mechanisms of tumor suppression and the many ways that multicellular life-forms have evolved to keep cancer under control. By accepting that cancer is a part of our biological past, present, and future--and that we cannot win a war against evolution--treatments can become smarter, more strategic, and more humane. Unifying the latest research from biology, ecology, medicine, and social science, The Cheating Cell challenges us to rethink cancer's fundamental nature and our relationship to it. Ships Fast From The USA! Authorized Dealer
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Book Title: The Cheating Cell: How Evolution Helps Us Understand and Treat Ca
Number of Pages: 256 Pages
Publication Name: Cheating Cell : How Evolution Helps Us Understand and Treat Cancer
Language: English
Publisher: Princeton University Press
Publication Year: 2021
Item Height: 0.9 in
Subject: Life Sciences / Evolution, Internal Medicine, Oncology, Life Sciences / Biology
Item Weight: 8.3 Oz
Type: Textbook
Item Length: 8 in
Author: Athena Aktipis
Subject Area: Science, Medical
Item Width: 5.2 in
Format: Trade Paperback
