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One renegade cell : how cancer begins

Author: Robert A Weinberg
Publisher: New York : Basic Books, 1999, ©1998.
Series: Science masters series.
Edition/Format:   Book : English : 1st paperback edView all editions and formats
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Document Type: Book
All Authors / Contributors: Robert A Weinberg
ISBN: 0465072763 9780465072767
OCLC Number: 42726809
Notes: Includes index.
Description: v, 170 p. : ill. ; 21 cm.
Contents: Enemy within : genes, cells, and the nature of cancer --
Clues to cancer's origins : how the outside world affects the insides of our cells --
Elusive quarry : hunting the proto-oncogene --
Fatal flaws : finding oncogenes in human tumors --
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 --
Breakdown of order : subverting normal growth control --
Immortality : avoidance of almost certain death --
Assisted suicide : apoptosis and the death program --
Clock without hands : the cell cycle clock apparatus --
Many obstacles in the road : the evolution of a tumor --
End to the scourge : using the knowledge of cancer's causes to develop new cures.
Series Title: Science masters series.
Other Titles: 1 renegade cell
Responsibility: Robert A. Weinberg.

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