Section 5: The Cancer Industry: Hype vs. Reality / Cancerous Coconspirators: Tumor Cells That Travel Together Spread Cancer / by John Horgan. Close-Up Views of Tumors Reveal a New Cancer Biology / by Philip Ball -- How Evolution Helps Us Understand Cancer and Control It / by Athena Aktipis -- The Colon Cancer Conundrum / by Cassandra Willyard -- How to Tell whether a Cancer Is Caused by Plain Bad Luck / by Viviane Callier -- Section 2: Detecting Cancer -- Experimental Blood Test Detects Cancer up to Four Years before Symptoms Appear / by Rachel Nuwer -- Taking Early Cancer Detection to the Next Level / by Joshua J. Ofman, Azra Raza -- The COVID Cancer Effect / by Usha Lee McFarling -- Most People at Risk for Lung Cancer Never Get Screened: Here's How to Fix That / by Simar Bajaj -- When Should You Get a Mammogram? / by Lauren J. Young -- Section 3: Cancer Prevention -- Do Cell Phones Cause Cancer? Probably, but It's Complicated / by Christopher J. Portier, Wendy L. Leonard -- One More Pioneering Woman in Science You've Probably Never Heard of / by Ellen Elliott -- Pancreatic Cancer Vaccine Shows Promise in Small Initial Trial / by Tanya Lewis -- Having Their Fallopian Tubes Removed Will Spare a Large Number of Women from Ovarian Cancer / by Joseph V. Sakran, Kara Long Roche, Rebecca Stone -- Adjusting Your Body Clock May Stave Off Cancer / by Lydia Denworth -- Section 4: Treating Cancer -- Scientists Tackle Lethal Childhood Brain Cancer / by Esther Landhuis -- A Shot against Cancer / by Karen Weintraub -- Are We Innately Immune to Cancer? / by Mark Lowdell -- Darwin's Ideas on Evolution Drive a Radical New Approach to Cancer Drug Use / by James DeGregori, Robert Gatenby -- Section 5: Equity and Ethics in Cancer Care -- We Must Improve Equity in Cancer Screening / by Melba Newsome -- The Race to Stop a Plastics Plant Scores a Crucial Win / by Judith Enck, Rebekah Creshkoff -- Clinical Trials Have the Best Medicine but Do Not Enroll the Patients Who Need It by David H. Freedman -- The Cancer Industry: Hype vs. Reality / by John Horgan.
Summary:
"Less than a century ago, the prognosis for those diagnosed with cancer tended to be bleak. However, in recent decades massive strides have been made in the understanding and treatment of cancer. This volume examines the advancements that have occurred in cancer research, including recent studies on the environmental and genetic causes of cancer, new therapies to help treat different types of cancer, and updated opinions on the role screenings and other preventative care can play in preventing cancer. It also explains exciting new research that could lead to quicker, less invasive, and more effective cancer treatments, or perhaps even stop certain types of cancer from developing at all"-- Provided by publisher.
This resource is supported by the Institute of Museum and Library Services under the provisions of the Library Services and Technology Act as administered by State Library of Iowa.