Understanding cancer
Title:
Understanding cancer
Author:
Scientific American Editors (New York, New York), editor.
ISBN:
9781725350281
Edition:
First edition.
Physical Description:
160 pages ; 23 cm.
Series:
Scientific American explores big ideas
Scientific American explores big ideas.
Contents:
Novel Cancer Research -- Cancerous Coconspirators: Tumor Cells That Travel Together Spread Cancer / Close-Up Views of Tumors Reveal a New Cancer Biology / How Evolution Helps Us Understand Cancer and Control It / The Colon Cancer Conundrum / How to Tell whether a Cancer Is Caused by Plain Bad Luck / Detecting Cancer -- Experimental Blood Test Detects Cancer up to Four Years before Symptoms Appear / Taking Early Cancer Detection to the Next Level / The COVID Cancer Effect / Most People at Risk for Lung Cancer Never Get Screened: Here's How to Fix That / When Should You Get a Mammogram? / Cancer Prevention -- Do Cell Phones Cause Cancer? Probably, but It's Complicated / One More Pioneering Woman in Science You've Probably Never Heard of / Pancreatic Cancer Vaccine Shows Promise in Small Initial Trial / Having Their Fallopian Tubes Removed Will Spare a Large Number of Women from Ovarian Cancer / Adjusting Your Body Clock May Stave Off Cancer / Treating Cancer -- Scientists Tackle Lethal Childhood Brain Cancer / A Shot against Cancer / Are We Innately Immune to Cancer? / Darwin's Ideas on Evolution Drive a Radical New Approach to Cancer Drug Use / Equity and Ethics in Cancer Care -- We Must Improve Equity in Cancer Screening / The Race to Stop a Plastics Plant Scores a Crucial Win / Clinical Trials Have the Best Medicine but Do Not Enroll the Patients Who Need It by David H. Freedman -- The Cancer Industry: Hype vs. Reality
Abstract:
"Less than a century ago, the prognosis for those diagnosed with cancer tended to be bleak. However, in recent decades massive strides have been made in the understanding and treatment of cancer. This volume examines the advancements that have occurred in cancer research, including recent studies on the environmental and genetic causes of cancer, new therapies to help treat different types of cancer, and updated opinions on the role screenings and other preventative care can play in preventing cancer. It also explains exciting new research that could lead to quicker, less invasive, and more effective cancer treatments, or perhaps even stop certain types of cancer from developing at all"-- Provided by publisher.
Reading Level:
Grades 10-12 Scientific American Educational Publishing.
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