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How can new understandings about cancer cell interactions help doctors better control, and eventually cure, cancer?Cancer is a formidable enemy. In fact, people born in America since 1960 face a one in two chance of being diagnosed with cancer in their lifetimes. However, there's growing evidence that fewer cancers will be death sentences for patients. New approaches and understandings are transforming the medical world, increasing success rates for remissions, disease management, and cures. Dr. Ashani Weeraratna is at the forefront of this new level of care. In Is Cancer Inevitable?, Weeraratnaa pioneering melanoma researcher whose work explores the role aging plays in cancer cells' spread and drug resistancegives readers an inside look at several of the latest cancer advances. Detailing the actions that are reducing the disease's impact and exploring what the future may hold, she explains how the molecular mechanisms involved in metastasis and the cells' microenvironments influence c

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Preface
1. The Nature of Cancer
2. The Role of Cancer Research
3. Breaking Through
4. Is Cancer Inevitable?
Acknowledgments
Notes
Index

Is Cancer Inevitable

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      Publisher Johns Hopkins University Press
      Published 1 February 2022
      ISBN-13 9781421442747
      978-1421442747
      ISBN-10 1421442744
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      Public health and preventive medicine

      Description

      Book Synopsis
      How can new understandings about cancer cell interactions help doctors better control, and eventually cure, cancer?Cancer is a formidable enemy. In fact, people born in America since 1960 face a one in two chance of being diagnosed with cancer in their lifetimes. However, there's growing evidence that fewer cancers will be death sentences for patients. New approaches and understandings are transforming the medical world, increasing success rates for remissions, disease management, and cures. Dr. Ashani Weeraratna is at the forefront of this new level of care. In Is Cancer Inevitable?, Weeraratnaa pioneering melanoma researcher whose work explores the role aging plays in cancer cells' spread and drug resistancegives readers an inside look at several of the latest cancer advances. Detailing the actions that are reducing the disease's impact and exploring what the future may hold, she explains how the molecular mechanisms involved in metastasis and the cells' microenvironments influence c

      Table of Contents

      Preface
      1. The Nature of Cancer
      2. The Role of Cancer Research
      3. Breaking Through
      4. Is Cancer Inevitable?
      Acknowledgments
      Notes
      Index

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