Is Cancer Inevitable?

New understandings about cancer cell interactions are helping doctors better control and eventually cure cancer. Dr. Ashani Weeraratna is a pioneering melanoma researcher who explains how the molecular mechanisms involved in metastasis and the cells microenvironments influence cancer's development and progression. Her book, Is Cancer Inevitable?, offers readers newfound hope and outlines why we will never control or cure cancer if we don't find a common purpose and come together in collaboration.

Format: Paperback / softback
Length: 152 pages
Publication date: 07 December 2021
Publisher: Johns Hopkins University Press

Cancer is a formidable enemy, with people born in America since 1960 facing a one in two chance of being diagnosed with cancer in their lifetimes. However, there is growing evidence that fewer cancers will be death sentences for patients. New approaches and understandings are transforming the medical world, increasing success rates for remissions, disease management, and cures. Dr. Ashani Weeraratna is at the forefront of this new level of care.

In "Is Cancer Inevitable?", Weeraratna, a pioneering melanoma researcher whose work explores the role aging plays in cancer cells' spread and drug resistance, gives readers an inside look at several of the latest cancer advances. Detailing the actions that are reducing the disease's impact and exploring what the future may hold, she explains how the molecular mechanisms involved in metastasis and the cells' microenvironments influence cancer's development and progression. Over the years, she writes, our understanding of how cancer cells move throughout the body, change as they plant themselves in the body's microenvironments, and even communicate with one another have led to major insights about how cancer works. With compelling detail, she takes us inside her lab, revealing how new insights are leading to major breakthroughs, even among patients with Stage IV cancer. She also explains how age-related changes in the microenvironment contribute to multiple aspects of melanoma formation and development. Such scholarship is moving us toward a day when more patients will be declared cancer-free.

An inspiring and deeply personal book, "Is Cancer Inevitable?" offers readers newfound hope.

Features:

Exploration of the latest cancer advances, including the role of aging in cancer cells' spread and drug resistance.

Insight into the actions reducing the disease's impact and exploring the future of cancer care.

Detailed explanation of how cancer cells move throughout the body, change as they plant themselves in the body's microenvironments, and communicate with one another.

Convincing detail of how new insights are leading to major breakthroughs, even among patients with Stage IV cancer.

Explanation of how age-related changes in the microenvironment contribute to multiple aspects of melanoma formation and development.

Offer of hope for patients with cancer, as scholarship moves us toward a day when more patients will be declared cancer-free.

Weight: 142g
Dimension: 126 x 179 x 19 (mm)
ISBN-13: 9781421442747