Catching Cancer

Catching Cancer
Author: Claudia Cornwall
Publsiher: Rowman & Littlefield Publishers
Total Pages: 240
Release: 2013-03-22
Genre: Health & Fitness
ISBN: 9781442215221

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The idea that you can “catch” cancer is radical, and yet several renowned scientists have shown that it is possible to do just that. Through interviews and an exploration of the science behind new discoveries, Claudia Cornwall reveals the breakthroughs that set us on a course of better understanding how cancer develops and how we might prevent it.

Catching Cancer

Catching Cancer
Author: Claudia Cornwall
Publsiher: Rowman & Littlefield
Total Pages: 241
Release: 2014-09-15
Genre: Cancer
ISBN: 1442215216

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The idea that you can "catch" cancer is radical, and yet several renowned scientists have shown that it is possible to do just that. Through interviews and an exploration of the science behind new discoveries, Claudia Cornwall reveals the breakthroughs that set us on a course of better understanding how cancer develops and how we might prevent it.

Battling Melanoma

Battling Melanoma
Author: Claudia Cornwall
Publsiher: Rowman & Littlefield
Total Pages: 230
Release: 2016-07-20
Genre: Health & Fitness
ISBN: 9781442245167

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Melanoma is a deadly disease, and rates of diagnosis have been rising for the last 30 years. Here Claudia Cornwall details the quest to find a cure for her husband, and the information about melanoma treatment they discover along the way.

Catching Breast Cancer

Catching Breast Cancer
Author: James Lawson
Publsiher: Austin Macauley Publishers
Total Pages: 236
Release: 2022-07-29
Genre: Health & Fitness
ISBN: 9781398447844

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CATCHING BREAST CANCER “How is it possible to catch breast cancer?” “How could breast cancer be an infectious disease?” For over 20 years James Lawson and his local and international colleagues have searched for the causes of breast cancer. By 2021 they had found the answers. From Australia, Italy, Austria and the US, a handful of medical scientists dared to think outside the accepted narrative. These outward-thinking individuals and small dedicated teams overcame the intense rivalry and competitiveness that so often stymies scientific progress. Over two decades, their collaborative work discovered that you can catch breast cancer and that it can be indeed an infectious disease. These groundbreaking findings have laid the groundwork for the most important step of all – preventing breast cancer. Lawson's work takes you behind these discoveries to the personal stories of those that have made such immense contributions to science and human health. The dry world of scientific papers and journals comes to life as one delves into the stories of those bright and brave minds that have driven this progress. Some humorous, others sad or poignant, all are fascinating. From Professor Generoso Bevilacqua of Pisa: “I have just completed reading your book. It was a fantastic experience! One can find everything in it. Science, history, personal memories and many humorous anecdotes.” Catching Breast Cancer is an important and compelling detective story for our current generation.

Cancer Virus

Cancer Virus
Author: Dorothy H. Crawford,Alan Rickinson,Ingólfur Johannessen
Publsiher: Oxford University Press
Total Pages: 219
Release: 2014-02
Genre: Health & Fitness
ISBN: 9780199653119

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Relates the story of the discovery of the Epstein-Barr virus in 1964 and how scientists are gradually coming to understand it, and considers why the virus causes apparently unrelated diseases in different populations.

You Can t Catch Cancer

You Can t Catch Cancer
Author: Leah Woods,Shelia Shaffer Burket
Publsiher: Lulu.com
Total Pages: 40
Release: 2024
Genre: Electronic Book
ISBN: 9781329548398

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Probably Someday Cancer

Probably Someday Cancer
Author: Kim Horner
Publsiher: University of North Texas Press
Total Pages: 209
Release: 2019-02-15
Genre: Biography & Autobiography
ISBN: 9781574417579

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After learning that she inherited a BRCA2 genetic mutation that put her at high risk for breast and ovarian cancer, Kim Horner’s doctors urged her to consider having a double mastectomy. But how do you decide whether to have a surgery to remove your breasts to reduce your risk for a disease you don’t have and may never get? Horner shares her struggle to answer that question in Probably Someday Cancer. The mother of a one-year-old boy, she wanted to do whatever would give her the best odds of being around for her son and protect her from breast cancer, which killed her grandmother and great-grandmother in their 40s. Which would give her the best chance at a long healthy life: a double mastectomy or frequent screenings to try to catch any cancer early? The answers weren’t that simple. Based on extensive research, interviews, and personal experience, Horner writes about how and why she ultimately opted for a double mastectomy—the same decision actress Angelina Jolie made for a similar genetic mutation—and the surprising diagnosis that followed. The book explores difficult truths that get overshadowed by upbeat messages about early detection and survivorship—the fact that screenings can miss cancers and that even early-stage breast cancers can spread and become fatal. Probably Someday Cancer is about the author’s efforts to push past her fear and anxiety. This book can help anyone facing hereditary risk of breast and ovarian cancer feel less alone and make informed decisions to protect their health and end the devastation that hereditary cancer has caused for generations in so many families.

Rebel Cell

Rebel Cell
Author: Kat Arney
Publsiher: BenBella Books
Total Pages: 256
Release: 2020-10-20
Genre: Medical
ISBN: 9781950665518

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Why do we get cancer? Is it our modern diets and unhealthy habits? Chemicals in the environment? An unwelcome genetic inheritance? Or is it just bad luck? The answer is all of these and none of them. We get cancer because we can't avoid it—it's a bug in the system of life itself. Cancer exists in nearly every animal and has afflicted humans as long as our species has walked the earth. In Rebel Cell: Cancer, Evolution, and the New Science of Life's Oldest Betrayal, Kat Arney reveals the secrets of our most formidable medical enemy, most notably the fact that it isn't so much a foreign invader as a double agent: cancer is hardwired into the fundamental processes of life. New evidence shows that this disease is the result of the same evolutionary changes that allowed us to thrive. Evolution helped us outsmart our environment, and it helps cancer outsmart its environment as well—alas, that environment is us. Explaining why "everything we know about cancer is wrong," Arney, a geneticist and award-winning science writer, guides readers with her trademark wit and clarity through the latest research into the cellular mavericks that rebel against the rigid biological "society" of the body and make a leap towards anarchy. We need to be a lot smarter to defeat such a wily foe—smarter even than Darwin himself. In this new world, where we know that every cancer is unique and can evolve its way out of trouble, the old models of treatment have reached their limits. But we are starting to decipher cancer's secret evolutionary playbook, mapping the landscapes in which these rogue cells survive, thrive, or die, and using this knowledge to predict and confound cancer's next move. Rebel Cell is a story about life and death, hope and hubris, nature and nurture. It's about a new way of thinking about what this disease really is and the role it plays in human life. Above all, it's a story about where cancer came from, where it's going, and how we can stop it.