Cancer the Evolutionary legacy

Greaves (Autor)

Buch | Softcover

288 Seiten

2001
Oxford University Press (Verlag)
978-0-19-262834-3 (ISBN)

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In this fascinating and highly readable new book, Mel Greaves shows how the origins of cancer are inextricably linked with our evolutionary heritage, and considers the implications of this theory for future research and treatment.

Mel Greaves is Director of the Leukemia Research Fund Center at the Institute of Cancer Research, in London. The winner of several awards for cancer research, he lives in London.

Preface ; PART I: CANCER - ANCIENT LEGACIES AND MODERN MYTHS ; 1. Perplexed? You should be ; 2. The King of Naples and other silent witnesses ; 3. Questions and answers ; PART II: EVOLVING CANCER ; 4. Clones, clones, clones ; 5. The way we are: risk and restraints ; 6. How cancer cells play the winning game ; 7. Green-eyed mutations? ; 8. Blind chance - and ultimate extinction? ; PART III: PARADOXES OF PROGRESS: INDECENT EXPOSURES ; 9. Is cancer an evolutionary inevitability? ; 10. And then you set fire to it? ; 11. Women's troubles ; 12. Men's troubles ; 13. Cancer a deux ; 14. Other ways of getting bugged ; 15. Travelling light ; 16. Dying for a living ; 17. Collateral damage ; 18. Finale: compounding risk with bad luck ; PART IV: FINESSING THE CLONE ; 19. Treatment: the blind marksman ; 20. Epilogue: cancer in the 21st century ; Index

Erscheint lt. Verlag	1.11.2001
Zusatzinfo	halftones
Verlagsort	Oxford
Sprache	englisch
Maße	156 x 234 mm
Gewicht	451 g
Themenwelt	Sachbuch/Ratgeber ► Gesundheit / Leben / Psychologie
	Sachbuch/Ratgeber ► Natur / Technik
	Medizin / Pharmazie ► Medizinische Fachgebiete ► Onkologie
	Naturwissenschaften ► Biologie ► Evolution
ISBN-10	0-19-262834-8 / 0192628348
ISBN-13	978-0-19-262834-3 / 9780192628343
Zustand	Neuware