
Title:
Evolutionary Dynamics of Malignancy The Genetic and Environmental Causes of Cancer
Author:
Jackson, Robert C. author.
ISBN:
9783031325731
Edition:
1st ed. 2023.
Physical Description:
XIV, 269 p. 96 illus., 58 illus. in color. online resource.
Contents:
Chapter 1: Cancer as a Disease of Cell Proliferation -- Chapter 2: Genetic and Chromosomal Instability -- Chapter 3: Cancer as a Disease of Defective Cell Cycle Checkpoint Function -- Chapter 4: The DNA Damage Checkpoint -- Chapter 5: Dynamics of the Spindle Assembly Checkpoint -- Chapter 6: Cancer as a Disease of Complexity: The Dynamics of Drug Resistance -- Chapter 7: Chronic Myeloid Leukaemia: a One-Hit Malignancy -- Chapter 8: Chronic Myelomonocytic Leukaemia: a Three-Hit Malignancy -- Chapter 9: The Cancer Stem Cell and Tumour Progression -- Chapter 10: Evading the antitumour immune response -- Chapter 11: Implications of Evolutionary Dynamics for Cancer Treatment and Prevention -- Chapter 12: In science, all conclusions are provisional.
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Electronic Access:
https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-031-32573-1Copies: