Cancer: The Evolutionary Legacy - Hardcover

Greaves, M. F.

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 0192628356 ISBN 13: 9780192628350

Verlag: Oxford University Press, 2000

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Book by Greaves Mel

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"Greaves shows an appreciable mastery of the issues, and does not try to obscure their complexity. He also shows a refreshing willingness to express his personal opinions on these issues, and the intellectual honesty to clearly acknowledge them as such. If you are looking for a thoughtful overview of the issues of evolution in cancer, The Evolutionary Legacy is a good place to start." Heredity, 88

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Around one in three people will at some time in their lives be diagnosed with cancer. For Western societies relishing health, wealth, and longevity, its continued prominence is one of the greatest challenges to science. Cancer is extraordinarily diverse in its causation, symptoms, likelihood of effective treatment - in some sense, every patient's cancer is unique, and that is part of the problem. Mel Greaves explains why the old paradigms of infectious diseases or genetic disorders have proved fruitless, and claims that by looking at cancer in its evolutionary context, we can begin to answer some of the big questions in cancer that concern us all. Drawing on both ancient and more modern evolutionary legacies, he shows how human development has changed the rules of evolutionary games, trapping us in a nature-nurture mismatch.

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• Verlag: Oxford University Press
• Erscheinungsdatum: 2000
• ISBN 10: 0192628356
• ISBN 13: 9780192628350
• Einband: Tapa dura
• Anzahl der Seiten: 288