Description: Further DetailsTitle: Dynamics of CancerCondition: NewEAN: 9780691133669ISBN: 9780691133669Publisher: Princeton University PressFormat: PaperbackRelease Date: 07/22/2007Item Height: 235mmItem Length: 152mmItem Weight: 539gAuthor: Steven A. FrankLanguage: EnglishSubtitle: Incidence, Inheritance, and EvolutionISBN-10: 0691133662Description: The onset of cancer presents one of the most fundamental problems in modern biology. In Dynamics of Cancer, Steven Frank produces the first comprehensive analysis of how particular genetic and environmental causes influence the age of onset. The book provides a unique conceptual and historical framework for understanding the causes of cancer and other diseases that increase with age. Using a novel quantitative framework of reliability and multistage breakdown, Frank unifies molecular, demographic, and evolutionary levels of analysis. He interprets a wide variety of observations on the age of cancer onset, the genetic and environmental causes of disease, and the organization of tissues with regard to stem cell biology and somatic mutation. Frank uses new quantitative methods to tackle some of the classic problems in cancer biology and aging: how the rate of increase in the incidence of lung cancer declines after individuals quit smoking, the distinction between the dosage of a chemical carcinogen and the time of exposure, and the role of inherited genetic variation in familial patterns of cancer. This is the only book that presents a full analysis of the age of cancer onset.It is a superb teaching tool and a rich source of ideas for new and experienced researchers. For cancer biologists, population geneticists, evolutionary biologists, and demographers interested in aging, this book provides new insight into disease progression, the inheritance of predisposition to disease, and the evolutionary processes that have shaped organismal design.Country/Region of Manufacture: USGenre: MedicineBook Series: Princeton Series in Evolutionary BiologyTopic: Science Nature & MathRelease Year: 2007 Missing Information?Please contact us if any details are missing and where possible we will add the information to our listing.
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Book Title: Dynamics of Cancer
Title: Dynamics of Cancer
EAN: 9780691133669
ISBN: 9780691133669
Release Date: 07/22/2007
Release Year: 2007
Subtitle: Incidence, Inheritance, and Evolution
ISBN-10: 0691133662
Country/Region of Manufacture: US
Genre: Medicine
Topic: Science Nature & Math
Number of Pages: 400 Pages
Language: English
Publication Name: Dynamics of Cancer : Incidence, Inheritance, and Evolution
Publisher: Princeton University Press
Item Height: 0.8 in
Subject: Microbiology, Life Sciences / Genetics & Genomics, Oncology, Life Sciences / Biology
Publication Year: 2007
Item Weight: 19 Oz
Type: Textbook
Subject Area: Science, Medical
Author: Steven A. Frank
Item Length: 9.1 in
Item Width: 6.1 in
Series: Princeton Series in Evolutionary Biology Ser.
Format: Perfect
