Abstract

1. Cooking up cancer – how from a tiny DNA alteration may eventually grow a large tumour

2. Cancer may sometimes be caused by defined (and, in many cases, eliminable) environmental factors

3. Cancer cells are not that alien to normal cells

4. Basic mechanisms of cancer

5. Cellular genes coding for products that play a role in tumorigenesis

6. Bases of cancer resistance to genotoxic drugs

7. Cancer stem cells

8. The final checkpoint – cancer as an adaptive evolutionary mechanism

9. Could we really 'cure' cancer?

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