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The Cheating Cell: How Evolution Helps Us Understand and Treat Cancer
Buch von Athena Aktipis
Sprache: Englisch

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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 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.
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 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.
Details
Erscheinungsjahr: 2020
Medium: Buch
Inhalt: Gebunden
ISBN-13: 9780691163840
ISBN-10: 0691163847
Sprache: Englisch
Einband: Gebunden
Autor: Aktipis, Athena
Hersteller: PRINCETON UNIV PR
Abbildungen: 19 b&w illus.
Maße: 245 x 164 x 25 mm
Von/Mit: Athena Aktipis
Erscheinungsdatum: 24.03.2020
Gewicht: 0,612 kg
Artikel-ID: 117445505
Details
Erscheinungsjahr: 2020
Medium: Buch
Inhalt: Gebunden
ISBN-13: 9780691163840
ISBN-10: 0691163847
Sprache: Englisch
Einband: Gebunden
Autor: Aktipis, Athena
Hersteller: PRINCETON UNIV PR
Abbildungen: 19 b&w illus.
Maße: 245 x 164 x 25 mm
Von/Mit: Athena Aktipis
Erscheinungsdatum: 24.03.2020
Gewicht: 0,612 kg
Artikel-ID: 117445505
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