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- The first comprehensive book for undergraduates and the interested general public outlining cancer as a complex, multifaceted disease
- Authored by a renowned expert in the field
- Covers not only the clinical and basic science aspects of cancer, but the key historical features and modern sociological, political, and economic perspectives as well
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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.
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.
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Table of contents (13 chapters)
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Front Matter
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Back Matter
Authors and Affiliations
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
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Bibliographic Information
Book Title: Cancer: The Enemy from Within
Book Subtitle: A Comprehensive Textbook of Cancer’s Causes, Complexities and Consequences
Authors: Carolyn Compton
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-40651-6
Publisher: Springer Cham
eBook Packages: Medicine, Medicine (R0)
Copyright Information: Springer Nature Switzerland AG 2020
Hardcover ISBN: 978-3-030-40650-9Published: 07 May 2020
Softcover ISBN: 978-3-030-40653-0Published: 07 May 2021
eBook ISBN: 978-3-030-40651-6Published: 06 May 2020
Edition Number: 1
Number of Pages: X, 330
Number of Illustrations: 8 b/w illustrations, 149 illustrations in colour
Topics: Oncology, Life Sciences, general