Rebel Cell: Cancer, Evolution, and the New Science of Life's Oldest Betrayal

Rebel Cell: Cancer, Evolution, and the New Science of Life's Oldest Betrayal

Why do we get cancer? Is it our modern diets and unhealthy habits? Chemicals in the environment? An unwelcome genetic inheritance? Or is it just bad luck?

The answer is all of these and none of them. W…

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