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Cancer: The Enemy from Within

A Comprehensive Textbook of Cancer’s Causes, Complexities and Consequences

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Authors:
  1. Carolyn Compton

    1. School of Life Sciences, Arizona State University, Scottsdale, USA

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  • The first comprehensive book for undergraduates and the interested general public outlining cancer as a complex, multifaceted disease

  • Authored by a renowned expert in the field

  • Covers not only the clinical and basic science aspects of cancer, but the key historical features and modern sociological, political, and economic perspectives as well

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Table of contents (13 chapters)

  1. Front Matter

    Pages I-X
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  2. The Nature and Origins of Cancer

    • Carolyn Compton
    Pages 1-23

  3. Cancer Initiation, Promotion, and Progression and the Acquisition of Key Behavioral Traits

    • Carolyn Compton
    Pages 25-48

  4. Understanding the Hallmark Characteristics of Cancer

    • Carolyn Compton
    Pages 49-81

  5. A Short History of Cancer: How Did We Get Here?

    • Carolyn Compton
    Pages 83-107

  6. Who Gets Cancer and Why? What Are the Consequences for Human Life and Longevity? How Can We Intervene? How Can We Track Progress?

    • Carolyn Compton
    Pages 109-136

  7. Screening for Cancer: Find It Early; Treat It Early; Save Lives

    • Carolyn Compton
    Pages 137-159

  8. Fundamentals of Cancer Diagnosis and Assessment

    • Carolyn Compton
    Pages 161-195

  9. Local Therapy for Cancer

    • Carolyn Compton
    Pages 197-222

  10. Systemic Therapy for Cancer

    • Carolyn Compton
    Pages 223-257

  11. Palliative Care, Hospice, and End of Life

    • Carolyn Compton
    Pages 259-267

  12. Development of New Cancer Therapies

    • Carolyn Compton
    Pages 269-298

  13. Cancer and Society

    • Carolyn Compton
    Pages 299-321

  14. Correction to: Cancer: The Enemy from Within

    • Carolyn Compton
    Pages C1-C2

  15. Back Matter

    Pages 323-330
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About this book

This comprehensive, ground-breaking title presents, in simplifying style, the driving and organizing principles of cancer, making this multidimensional, highly complex disease easily understandable for readers.  Developed out of the renowned author’s many years of teaching a widely popular, several-hundred-student college course, this 12-chapter book begins with an account of the history of cancer as a medical and public health problem, as well as the major milestones and setbacks in the ongoing quest to understand the wide variety of cancers that continue to impact the world.  Subsequent chapters then address pathogenesis, incidence and mortality statistics, risk factors, causal factors, screening challenges and victories, treatment strategies, and disease prevention approaches. This wealth of clinical information is further supplemented with socioeconomic discussions on the financial, social, ethical, technological, regulatory, political, and logistical challenges that limit progress in cancer research.  
 
A soon to be gold-standard text that thoroughly and expertly describes cancer as a composite, adaptive system, Cancer: The Enemy from Within equips and empowers all undergraduate students and graduate students to better understand this continually perplexing disease. Clinicians across all disciplines may also find this work of great interest.


Authors and Affiliations

  • School of Life Sciences, Arizona State University, Scottsdale, USA

    Carolyn Compton

About the author

Carolyn Compton, MD, PhD, FCAP

Professor of Life Sciences, Arizona State University

Barrett Honors Faculty, Arizona State University

Professor of Laboratory Medicine and Pathology, Mayo Clinic College of Medicine

Adjunct Professor of Pathology, Johns Hopkins Medical Institutions

CMO, National Biomarker Development Alliance

Tempe, AZ 85281

USA



Bibliographic Information

  • Book Title: Cancer: The Enemy from Within

  • Book Subtitle: A Comprehensive Textbook of Cancer’s Causes, Complexities and Consequences

  • Authors: Carolyn Compton

  • DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-40651-6

  • Publisher: Springer Cham

  • eBook Packages: Medicine, Medicine (R0)

  • Copyright Information: Springer Nature Switzerland AG 2020

  • Hardcover ISBN: 978-3-030-40650-9Published: 07 May 2020

  • Softcover ISBN: 978-3-030-40653-0Published: 07 May 2021

  • eBook ISBN: 978-3-030-40651-6Published: 06 May 2020

  • Edition Number: 1

  • Number of Pages: X, 330

  • Number of Illustrations: 8 b/w illustrations, 149 illustrations in colour

  • Topics: Oncology, Life Sciences, general

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