One Renegade Cell How Cancer Begins

Name: One Renegade Cell How Cancer Begins
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ISBN: 9780465072767

ISBN-10: 0465072763

ISBN-13: 9780465072767

Edition: N/A

Authors: Robert A. Weinberg

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Book details

List price: $17.99
Publisher: Basic Books
Publication date: 10/8/1999
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 176
Size: 5.00" wide x 8.00" long x 0.50" tall
Weight: 0.440
Language: English



Acknowledgments



The Enemy Within: Genes, Cells, and the Nature of Cancer



Clues to Cancer's Origins: How the Outside World Affects the Insides of Our Cells



The Elusive Quarry: Hunting the Proto-Oncogene



Fatal Flaws: Finding Oncogenes in Human Tumors



A Book of Many Chapters: Multistep Tumor Development



Fueling the Fire: Carcinogens That Aren't Mutagens



Brake Linings: the Discovery of Tumor Suppressor Genes



Guts: a Case Study in Cancer Development



Defenders of the Text: Dna Repair and Its Breakdown



Guide Proteins of the Cell: the Machinery That Controls Growth



A Breakdown of Order: Subverting Normal Growth Control



Immortality: Avoidance of Almost Certain Death



Assisted Suicide: Apoptosis and the Death Program



A Clock Without Hands: the Cell Cycle Clock Apparatus



Many Obstacles in the Road: the Evolution of a Tumor



An End to the Scourge: Using the Knowledge of Cancer's Causes to Develop New Cures


Index