Awards

• Commended for BMA Medical Book of the Year Award 2001.
• Winner of BMA Medical Book Competition 2001, awarded Highly Commended in the Popular Medicine category.

Overview

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.

Full Product Details

Author:   Greaves
Publisher:   Oxford University Press
Imprint:   Oxford University Press
Dimensions:   Width: 15.60cm , Height: 1.60cm , Length: 23.40cm
Weight:   0.451kg
ISBN:  

9780192628343

ISBN 10:   0192628348
Pages:   288
Publication Date:   27 September 2001
Audience:   General/trade ,  General
Format:   Paperback
Publisher's Status:   Active
Availability:   To order  
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Table of Contents

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

Reviews

The more you read of this, the harder it is to put down. Nursing Standard This is a most engaging and accessible book... There are plenty of books on cancer as a disease, but this book is unusual in its focus on the underlying biological principles. Journal of Biological Education Thoroughly recommendable. Microbiology Today

Author Information

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.

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