Cancer Genes

Weaving together family history, genetic discovery, and scenes from her life, Ami McKay tells the compelling, true-science story of her own family's unsettling legacy of hereditary cancer while exploring the challenges that come from carrying the mutation that not only killed many people you loved, but might also kill you.

Risk assessment and genetic testing for breast cancer are at the vanguard of a rapidly expanding field of medicine, while the molecular genetics of breast cancer is a focus for a growing field of basic and applied scientific research.

Risk assessment and genetic testing for breast cancer are at the vanguard of a rapidly expanding field of medicine, while the molecular genetics of breast cancer is a focus for a growing field of basic and applied scientific research. The last decade has also seen an exponential rise in health 'activism' around breast cancer.

Authors: Bunz, Fred
A concise guide to understanding the genes that cause cancer
Illuminates the respective contributions of heredity, the environment, and errors in DNA replication
Relates cancer genes to the hallmark characteristics of the cancer cell
Provides an overview of the genetic etiology of common cancers
Highlights new frontiers in gene-based risk analysis, diagnosis and therapy

This book explains the mechanisms of different types of cancers in twelve chapters organized into sections on oncogenes, tumor suppressor genes, and viral oncogenes

This concise guidebook consolidates the main concepts of the cancer gene theory, and provides a framework for understanding the genetic basis of cancer. Focused on the most highly representative genes that underlie the most common cancers, the book is aimed at advanced undergraduates who have completed introductory courses in genetics,…