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Concluding Remarks

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  17 May 2022

Robin Hesketh
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University of Cambridge
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The story of cancer began hundreds of millions of years ago and has continued in parallel with mammalian evolution. However, it only became a scourge in the twentieth century, mainly due to the doubling of the human lifespan. The era of molecular biology began in the second half of that century and this has unveiled much detail about the behaviour of cells and what goes wrong when they proliferate in an abnormal manner – the basic cause of cancers.

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Understanding Cancer , pp. 200 - 201
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Print publication year: 2022

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