The Cheating Cell
How Evolution Helps Us Understand and Treat Cancer
1st Edition
Published on 10. February 2020
256 pages
978-0-691-18608-5 (ISBN)
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Athena Aktipis is associate professor in the Department of Psychology and at the Arizona Cancer Evolution Center at Arizona State University and cofounder of the International Society for Evolution, Ecology and Cancer. She is also the host of the science podcast Zombified and the producer of Channel Zed. Twitter @AthenaAktipis
Content
- Cover
- Contents
- Acknowledgments
- 1. Introduction: Evolution in the Flesh
- 2. Why Does Cancer Evolve?
- 3. Cheating in Multicellular Cooperation
- 4. Cancer from Womb to Tomb
- 5. Cancer across the Tree of Life
- 6. The Hidden World of Cancer Cells
- 7. How to Control Cancer
- Notes
- Bibliography
- Index
