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?, Weeraratna-a pioneering melanoma researcher
whose work explores the role aging plays in cancer cells' spread
and drug resistance-gives 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 cancer's development and
progression. Over the years, she writes, our understanding of how
cancer cells move throughout the body, change as they plant
themselves in the body's microenvironments, and even communicate
with one another have led to major insights about how cancer works.
With compelling detail, she takes us inside her lab, revealing how
new insights are leading to major breakthroughs, even among
patients with Stage IV cancer. She also explains how age-related
changes in the microenvironment contribute to multiple aspects of
melanoma formation and development. Such scholarship, she argues,
is moving us toward a day when more patients will be declared
cancer-free. An inspiring and deeply personal book, Is Cancer
Inevitable? offers readers newfound hope. Features * Explores key
insights and studies developed in recent years that have greatly
influenced the world of cancer research, including how aging
microenvironments within our bodies encourage metastasis and
therapy resistance * Guides readers through Dr. Ashani Weeraratna's
personal story of coming to the United States from Lesotho at the
age of 17 and rising to become one of the pioneers in her field *
Brings readers inside Weeraratna's lab, describing both the
processes and the missions of her work * Raises awareness about how
cancer works within the body and what any patient or family
encountering the disease needs to understand-while also offering
them hope based on new and forthcoming diagnostic and treatment
methods * Outlines why we will never control-let alone cure-cancer
if we don't find a common purpose and come together in
collaboration, inviting the greatest minds from around the world to
participate in finding and implementing solutions Johns Hopkins
Wavelengths In classrooms, field stations, and laboratories in
Baltimore and around the world, the Bloomberg Distinguished
Professors of Johns Hopkins University are opening the boundaries
of our understanding of many of the world's most complex
challenges. The Johns Hopkins Wavelengths book series brings
readers inside their stories, illustrating how their pioneering
discoveries benefit people in their neighborhoods and across the
globe in artificial intelligence, cancer research, food systems'
environmental impacts, health equity, science diplomacy, and other
critical arenas of study. Through these compelling narratives,
their insights will spark conversations from dorm rooms to dining
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