Revealing cancer: Hundreds of diseases under a single name

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  • Salvador Macip University of Leicester (United Kingdom).

DOI:

https://doi.org/10.7203/metode.77.2471

Keywords:

cancer, oncogene, p53, tumour suppressors, personalised therapies

Abstract

We all know more or less what cancer is: cells that divide uncontrollably. But behind this simplistic depiction hides one of today’s most complex and serious health problems. Thanks to biomedical progress in the last twenty years we are finally beginning to recognise important differences between known cancers, a discovery that will be key to designing more effective therapies in the near future.

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Author Biography

Salvador Macip, University of Leicester (United Kingdom).

Professor at the Department of Biochemistry. University of Leicester (United Kingdom).

References

Hanahan, D. and R. A. Weinberg, 2000. «The Hallmarks of Cancer». Cell, 100: 57-70. DOI: <10.1016/S0092-8674(00)81683-9>.

Hanahan, D. and R. A. Weinberg, 2011. «Hallmarks of Cancer: the Next Generation». Cell, 144: 646-674.

Macip, S., 2012. Què és el càncer i per què no hem de tenir-li por. Ara Llibres. Barcelona.

Varmus, H. E., 1990. «Nobel Lecture. Retroviruses and Oncogenes. I.». Bioscience Reports, 10(5): 413-430. DOI: <10.1007/BF01152288>.

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Published

2014-06-01

How to Cite

Macip, S. (2014). Revealing cancer: Hundreds of diseases under a single name. Metode Science Studies Journal, (4), 19–21. https://doi.org/10.7203/metode.77.2471
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The spirit of science (2014)

Section

The thin line. Cancer in the 21st century

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