Cancer - the Enemy from Within : A Comprehensive Textbook of Cancer?s Causes, Complexities and Consequences

Compton, Carolyn

ISBN 10: 3030406504 / ISBN 13: 9783030406509

Published by Springer, 2020

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Synopsis:

This comprehensive, ground-breaking title presents, in simplifying style, the driving and organizing principles of cancer, making this multidimensional, highly complex disease easily understandable for readers.  Developed out of the renowned author’s many years of teaching a widely popular, several-hundred-student college course, this 12-chapter book begins with an account of the history of cancer as a medical and public health problem, as well as the major milestones and setbacks in the ongoing quest to understand the wide variety of cancers that continue to impact the world.  Subsequent chapters then address pathogenesis, incidence and mortality statistics, risk factors, causal factors, screening challenges and victories, treatment strategies, and disease prevention approaches. This wealth of clinical information is further supplemented with socioeconomic discussions on the financial, social, ethical, technological, regulatory, political, and logistical challenges thatlimit progress in cancer research.  

 

A soon to be gold-standard text that thoroughly and expertly describes cancer as a composite, adaptive system, Cancer: The Enemy from Within equips and empowers all undergraduate students and graduate students to better understand this continually perplexing disease. Clinicians across all disciplines may also find this work of great interest.

About the Author:

Carolyn Compton, MD, PhD, FCAP

Professor of Life Sciences, Arizona State University

Barrett Honors Faculty, Arizona State University

Professor of Laboratory Medicine and Pathology, Mayo Clinic College of Medicine

Adjunct Professor of Pathology, Johns Hopkins Medical Institutions

CMO, National Biomarker Development Alliance

Tempe, AZ 85281

USA

Bibliographic Details

Title: Cancer - the Enemy from Within : A ...
Publisher: Springer
Publication Date: 2020
Binding: Hardcover
Condition: As New