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The Cheating Cell

Health and Wellness

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Science and Nature

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The Cheating Cell

How Evolution Helps Us Understand and Treat CancerBy Athena AktipisNarrated by Laurel Lefkow

The Cheating Cell

Length7h 53m

About this audiobook

This audiobook narrated by Laurel Lefkow offers a fundamental and groundbreaking reassessment of how we view and manage cancer When we think of the forces driving cancer, we don't necessarily think of evolution. But evolution and cancer are closely linked, for the historical processes that created life also created cancer. The Cheating Cell delves into this extraordinary relationship, and shows that by understanding cancer's evolutionary origins, researchers can come up with more effective, revolutionary treatments. Athena Aktipis goes back billions of years to explore when unicellular forms became multicellular organisms. Within these bodies of cooperating cells, cheating ones arose, overusing resources and replicating out of control, giving rise to cancer. Aktipis illustrates how evolution has paved the way for cancer's ubiquity, and why it will exist as long as multicellular life does. Even so, she argues, this doesn't mean we should give up on treating cancer—in fact, evolutionary approaches offer new and promising options for the disease's prevention and treatments that aim at long-term management rather than simple eradication. Looking across species—from sponges and cacti to dogs and elephants—we are discovering new mechanisms of tumor suppression and the many ways that multicellular life-forms have evolved to keep cancer under control. By accepting that cancer is a part of our biological past, present, and future—and that we cannot win a war against evolution—treatments can become smarter, more strategic, and more humane. Unifying the latest research from biology, ecology, medicine, and social science, The Cheating Cell challenges us to rethink cancer's fundamental nature and our relationship to it.

Audiobook details

GenreHealth and Wellness, Science and Nature

Length7 hrs 53 mins

Narrated byLaurel Lefkow

FormatAudiobook

Publish dateMar 24, 2020

LanguageEnglish

Table of contents

1Opening Anno, Dedication, Chapter 1 - Introduction: Evolution in the Flesh

5Chapter 5 - Cancer Across the Tree of Life

2Chapter 2 - Why Does Cancer Evolve?

6Chapter 6 - The Hidden World of Cancer Cells

3Chapter 3 - Cheating in Multicelluar Cooperation

7Chapter 7 - How to Control Cancer, Closing Anno

4Chapter 4 - Cancer from Womb to Tomb

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Athena Aktipis

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