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New in paperback. Hardcover was publsihed in 2000. Shows how the origins of cancer are inectricably linked with our evolutionary heritage, and considers the implications of this theory for future research and treatment.
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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.
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



