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Rebel Cell - Cancer, Evolution, and the New Science of Life's Oldest Betrayal (Paperback)
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Rebel Cell - Cancer, Evolution, and the New Science of Life's Oldest Betrayal (Paperback)
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Why do we get cancer? Is it our modern diets and unhealthy habits?
Chemicals in the environment? An unwelcome genetic inheritance? Or
is it just bad luck? The answer is all of these and none of them.
We get cancer because we can't avoid it--it's a bug in the system
of life itself. Cancer exists in nearly every animal and has
afflicted humans as long as our species has walked the earth. In
Rebel Cell: Cancer, Evolution, and the New Science of Life's Oldest
Betrayal, Kat Arney reveals the secrets of our most formidable
medical enemy, most notably the fact that it isn't so much a
foreign invader as a double agent: cancer is hardwired into the
fundamental processes of life. New evidence shows that this disease
is the result of the same evolutionary changes that allowed us to
thrive. Evolution helped us outsmart our environment, and it helps
cancer outsmart its environment as well--alas, that environment is
us. Explaining why "everything we know about cancer is wrong,"
Arney, a geneticist and award-winning science writer, guides
readers with her trademark wit and clarity through the latest
research into the cellular mavericks that rebel against the rigid
biological "society" of the body and make a leap towards anarchy.
We need to be a lot smarter to defeat such a wily foe--smarter even
than Darwin himself. In this new world, where we know that every
cancer is unique and can evolve its way out of trouble, the old
models of treatment have reached their limits. But we are starting
to decipher cancer's secret evolutionary playbook, mapping the
landscapes in which these rogue cells survive, thrive, or die, and
using this knowledge to predict and confound cancer's next move.
Rebel Cell is a story about life and death, hope and hubris, nature
and nurture. It's about a new way of thinking about what this
disease really is and the role it plays in human life. Above all,
it's a story about where cancer came from, where it's going, and
how we can stop it.
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