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THE CAUSES OF CANCER The interplay between nature and nurture Both inheritance and environment are important determi nants of cancer development. Neither influence is completely dominant. The balance between genes and the environment is context specific and not...

THE MANAGEMENT OF CANCER Management is more than treatment The traditional approach to cancer concentrates on diagnosis and active treatment. This is a very limited view that, in terms - of public health, may not have served society well. It implies a fatalis...

THE MANAGEMENT OF CANCER Management is more than treatment The traditional approach to cancer concentrates on diagnosis and active treatment. This is a very limited view that, in terms - of public health, may not have served society well. It implies a fatalis...

The growth of a cancer If it is accepted that a cancer starts from a single transformed cell then it is possible, using straightforward arithmetic, to describe the progression from a single cell to a mass of cells large enough to kill the host. The division ...

The hallmarks of cancer Cancer cells are able to proliferate in an uncontrolled fashion; - their ability to divide and spread is unbounded. Cancer cell growth destroys first the tissue from which they arise and - eventually the person in which they are present....

The range of non-surgical anti-cancer treatments Radiotherapy Half of all patients will receive radiotherapy during their - cancer journey . The mechanism of action of radiotherapy is that ionising radiation causes single- and double-stranded - DNA breaks....

Therapeutic decision making and the multidisciplinary team As the management of cancer becomes more complex, it becomes impossible for an individual clinician to have the competence that is necessary to manage all patients presenting with a particular type of...

Therapeutic decision making and the multidisciplinary team As the management of cancer becomes more complex, it becomes impossible for an individual clinician to have the competence that is necessary to manage all patients presenting with a particular type of...

WHAT IS CANCER? History The word ‘cancer’ is credited to Hippocrates (460 /uni00A0 /b.sc/c.sc/e.sc –370 /uni00A0/b.sc/c.sc/e.sc ), who is widely agreed to be the father of medicine, and comes from the Greek word for a crab, referring to the finger-like project...