Book contents
- Understanding Cancer
- Series page
- Understanding Cancer
- Copyright page
- Reviews
- Dedication
- Contents
- Foreword
- Preface
- Acknowledgements
- Gene Names
- 1 Painting a Clear Picture
- 2 Ancient History
- 3 Counting Cancer
- 4 From DNA to Protein
- 5 What Is a Cell?
- 6 Mutations
- 7 Causes of Cancer That Can be Controlled
- 8 Causes of Cancer That Are Difficult to Control, Accidents … and Other Things
- 9 Treating Cancer by Chemotherapy
- 10 The Road to Utopia?
- Concluding Remarks
- Summary of Common Misunderstandings
- References
- Figure Credits
- Index
Concluding Remarks
Published online by Cambridge University Press: 17 May 2022
- Understanding Cancer
- Series page
- Understanding Cancer
- Copyright page
- Reviews
- Dedication
- Contents
- Foreword
- Preface
- Acknowledgements
- Gene Names
- 1 Painting a Clear Picture
- 2 Ancient History
- 3 Counting Cancer
- 4 From DNA to Protein
- 5 What Is a Cell?
- 6 Mutations
- 7 Causes of Cancer That Can be Controlled
- 8 Causes of Cancer That Are Difficult to Control, Accidents … and Other Things
- 9 Treating Cancer by Chemotherapy
- 10 The Road to Utopia?
- Concluding Remarks
- Summary of Common Misunderstandings
- References
- Figure Credits
- Index
Summary
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 - 201Publisher: Cambridge University PressPrint publication year: 2022