The Cheating Cell
How Evolution Helps Us Understand and Treat Cancer
Athena Aktipis
"The Cheating Cell" explores the close relationship between evolution and cancer, revealing that cancer is a natural result of the processes that created life. Athena Aktipis explains how understanding cancer's evolutionary origins can lead to new and effective treatments. By accepting cancer as part of our past, present, and future, treatments can become smarter and more humane. This book unifies the latest research from biology, ecology, medicine, and social science, challenging readers to rethink cancer's fundamental nature and our relationship to it.
Publish Date
2020-03-24T00:00:00.000Z
2020-03-24T00:00:00.000Z
Goodreads Rating
4.07
ISBN
9780691163840
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Recommendations
2
Recommendations
2022-04-07T10:02:59.000Z
The Cheating Cell by @AthenaAktipis. Darwinian approach to evolution of cancer and cancer-resistance. Brilliant book, up there with Nesse & Williams. Tussle between opposing selection pressures means cancer is an inevitable byproduct of selection for individual advantage. – source2022-09-13T19:35:16.000Z
@POTUS Here's a great book (2020) by @AthenaAktipis about the evolutionary origins & nature of cancer. Might help understand the problem & guide research. – source