Devil on the Run: The Strange Case of a Contagious Tumor, an Endangered Animal, and a Radical New Strategy Against Cancer (Hardcover) (ISBN-13: 9781982142537)

Vendor: David Quammen
Product type: Books
Format: Hardcover
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Devil on the Run: The Strange Case of a Contagious Tumor, an Endangered Animal, and a Radical New Strategy Against Cancer

$31.00

Devil on the Run: The Strange Case of a Contagious Tumor, an Endangered Animal, and a Radical New Strategy Against Cancer

$31.00
Format: Hardcover
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From bestselling author David Quammen, a fascinating scientific detective story about how a transmissible cancer first discovered in Tasmanian devils is connected to the discovery that cancer in humans can be treated as a chronic illness, not a fatal one--a radically new approach that promises not only survival but a better quality of life.

In Devil on the Run David Quammen introduces us to the revolutionary new field of evolutionary oncology, which reframes cancer as an evolutionary process, arguing that tumors adapt, compete, and survive through natural selection--and that understanding this is key to better treatment.

Using the dramatic case of a contagious cancer in Tasmanian devils as an example, Quammen explores how cancer evolves within and sometimes between bodies, how cancer in certain animals teaches us about cancer in humans, and how this evolutionary model is reshaping oncology, leading to new therapies that treat cancer as a chronic disease, rather than a terminal diagnosis.

With his trademark talent for explaining complex scientific stories, Quammen puts the scientists and researchers at the center of the narrative--some of whom have themselves been affected by cancer, making their work all the more urgent. We see how scientific breakthroughs are in fact based on years of careful research and innovative thinking, and how one generation of scientists builds on the work of the one that came before it.

Blending narrative, science, history, and field reporting, Devil on the Run contends that future treatments may depend less on total eradication and more on managing cancer as a dynamic biological system, with hopeful new outcomes for cancer patients.

Author: David Quammen
ISBN-10: 1982142537
ISBN-13: 9781982142537
Publisher: Simon & Schuster
Language: English
Published: 03/16/2027
Pages: 448
Format: Hardcover
Weight: 1.51lbs
Size: 9.00h x 6.00w x 1.23d
By David Quammen
By David Quammen
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David Quammen's books include Breathless (a National Book Award finalist), The Tangled Tree, The Song of the Dodo, The Reluctant Mr. Darwin, and Spillover. He has written for The New Yorker, Harper's Magazine, The Atlantic, National Geographic, and The New York Times Magazine, among other publications, and is a three-time winner of the National Magazine Award. Quammen shares a home in Bozeman, Montana, with his wife, Betsy Gaines Quammen, author of American Zion, and with three Russian wolfhounds, a cross-eyed cat, and a rescue python. Visit him at DavidQuammen.com.

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