Millions of lives are lost to cancer every year. A diagnosis of cancer comes with a drastic downfall in the quality of life of an individual. This book delves into strategies to prevent cancer based on research evidence and precision medicine. Cancer is not just bad luck!
Coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19), has affected millions of lives across the globe. A key question to cancer researchers is what the pandemic means to cancer patients and the incidence rates of cancer? This book aims to provide some insight into such potential sequalae.
The book deciphers the language that the cancer cells use to interact with its microenvironment to facilitate proliferation and survival. Cancer cells are champion survivors and they hijack multiple mechanisms of the host. This book includes a brief history of cancer followed by a description and artistic representation of four novel traits exploited by cancer cells namely, dedifferentiation, epigenetics, microbiome, and nerves. The book weaves the traits of cancer cells around the latest cancer research.