Cancer Stem Cells : Philosophy and Therapies / Lucie Laplane.
A new therapeutic strategy could break the stalemate in the war on cancer by targeting not all cancerous cells but the small fraction that lie at the root of cancers. Lucie Laplane offers a comprehensive analysis of cancer stem cell theory, based on an original interdisciplinary approach that combin...
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Full Text (via De Gruyter) |
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| Format: | Electronic eBook |
| Language: | English |
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Cambridge, MA :
Harvard University Press,
[2017]
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| Summary: | A new therapeutic strategy could break the stalemate in the war on cancer by targeting not all cancerous cells but the small fraction that lie at the root of cancers. Lucie Laplane offers a comprehensive analysis of cancer stem cell theory, based on an original interdisciplinary approach that combines biology, biomedical history, and philosophy. |
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| Physical Description: | 1 online resource : 20 halftones, 4 tables |
| ISBN: | 9780674969582 0674969588 |
| Language: | In English. |
| Source of Description, Etc. Note: | Source of description: Online resource; title from PDF title page (publisher's Web site, viewed Feb. 24, 2017). |