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Index
Praise
Title Page
Contents
Acknowledgements
1. The Enemy Within: Genes, Cells, and the Nature of Cancer
2. Clues to Cancer’s Origins: How the Outside World Affects the Insides of Our Cells
3. The Elusive Quarry: Hunting the Proto-oncogene
4. Fatal Flaws: Finding Oncogenes in Human Tumors
5. A Book of Many Chapters: Multistep Tumor Development
6. Fueling the Fire: Carcinogens That Aren’t Mutagens
7. Brake Linings: The Discovery of Tumor Suppressor Genes
8. Guts: A Case Study in Cancer Development
9. Defenders of the Text: DNA Repair and Its Breakdown
10. Guide Proteins of the Cell: The Machinery That Controls Growth
11. A Breakdown of Order: Subverting Normal Growth Control
12. Immortality: Avoidance of Almost Certain Death
13. Assisted Suicide: Apoptosis and the Death Program
14. A Clock Without Hands: The Cell Cycle Clock Apparatus
15. Many Obstacles in the Road: The Evolution of a Tumor
16. An End to the Scourge: Using the Knowledge of Cancer’s Causes to Develop New Cures
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