One Renegade Cell: How Cancer Begins (Paperback) (ISBN-13: 9780465072767)

Cancer research has reached a major turning point. The quality and quantity of information gathered about this disease in the past twenty years has revolutionized our understanding of its origins and behavior. No one is better qualified to comment on these dramatic leaps forward than molecular biologist Robert A. Weinberg, director of one of the leading cancer research centers in the world. In One Renegade Cell, Weinberg presents an accessible and state-of-the-art account of how the disease begins and how, one day, it will be cured. Weinberg tells how the roots of cancer were uncovered in 1909 and when the first cancer-causing virus was discovered. He then moves forward to the discovery of the role of chemical carcinogens and radiation in triggering cancer, and relates the remarkable story of the discoveries of oncogenes and tumor suppressor genes, the master controllers of normal and malignant cell proliferation. This book, which presumes little prior knowledge of biology, describes the revolution in biomedical research that has finally uncovered the forces driving malignant growth. Drawing on insights that simply were not available until recently, the discoveries presented in One Renegade Cell have already begun to profoundly alter the way that we diagnose and treat human cancers.

Author: Robert A. Weinberg
ISBN-10: 0465072763
ISBN-13: 9780465072767
Publisher: Basic Books
Language: English
Published: 10/08/1999
Pages: 176
Format: Paperback
Weight: 0.46lbs
Size: 8.01h x 5.32w x 0.50d

Review Citation(s):
Booklist 10/15/1999 pg. 423
Ingram Advance 10/01/1999 pg. 178