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Title: One Renegade Cell : How Cancer Begins by Robert A. Weinberg ISBN: 0-465-07276-3 Publisher: Basic Books Pub. Date: January, 2000 Format: Paperback Volumes: 1 List Price(USD): $14.50 |
Average Customer Rating: 4.93 (14 reviews)
Rating: 5
Summary: A lucid, insightful account of biology gone bad
Comment: Having read several books on the history and casues of cancer, I can honestly say that this was the most entertaining and insightfull. With the skill of a master technician, Weinberg carefully constructs step by step the processes that cause a normal human cell to turn rogue. He effortlessly weaves such topics as the viralological, carcinogenic and genetic causes of cancer to give the reader a clear and concise overview of the reasons for cancers existence. Along the way he also debunks several common myths about cancer (IE. that enviromental pollutnats are responsible for a large portion of human cancers). While its is not necessary to have a degree in biology to read this book, a general understanding of physiology and genetics (basic) certainly makes it more enjoyable. My only regret with this book was that it was a mere 170 pages long.
Rating: 5
Summary: "Cancer 101"
Comment: When my mother was diagnosed with cancer a few months ago, I frantically read everything I could lay my hands on to try to understand what was happening to her. As a former English major and flunker-of-high-school science classes, educating myself about the disease was a daunting task. "One Renegade Cell" explains in intelligent but clear language the theories that currently best explain how the disease begins and spreads.
In my search for knowledge, I have found many books that explain cancer as though to the Village Idiot. And I have found others that explain it as though to a PhD in Biology. I am truly thankful that Weinberg wrote this rare book that can be enjoyed and understood by the rest of us.
Rating: 5
Summary: Excelent entry to cancer biology
Comment: There are very few books out that give the reader an overview modern cancer biology. This short book gives a clear picture of a complex and current subject. It uses historical perspective on scientific discovery to enliven the reading. It's well organized and readable without background in biology, but with enough depth to interest biologists in other fields. I also reccomend Robert Weinberg's "Genes and the Biology of Cancer", written with Harold Varmus, which covers the same material in a little more depth.
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Title: The Biological Basis of Cancer by Robert G. McKinnell, Ralph E. Parchment, Alan O. Perantoni, G. Barry Pierce ISBN: 0521596955 Publisher: Cambridge University Press Pub. Date: 13 March, 1998 List Price(USD): $50.00 |
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Title: CURING CANCER: The Story of the Men and Women Unlocking the Secrets of our Deadliest Illness by Michael Waldholz ISBN: 0684848023 Publisher: Simon & Schuster Pub. Date: 24 March, 1999 List Price(USD): $20.95 |
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Title: Racing to the Beginning of the Road: The Search for the Origin of Cancer by Robert A. Weinberg ISBN: 0716732831 Publisher: W H Freeman & Co. Pub. Date: September, 1998 List Price(USD): $14.95 |
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Title: Natural Obsessions : Striving to Unlock the Deepest Secrets of the Cancer Cell by Natalie Angier ISBN: 0395924723 Publisher: Houghton Mifflin Co Pub. Date: 06 April, 1999 List Price(USD): $15.00 |
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Title: At War Within: The Double-Edged Sword of Immunity by William R. Clark ISBN: 0195115686 Publisher: Oxford Univ Pr on Demand Pub. Date: May, 1997 List Price(USD): $17.95 |
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