Phd Jacob Shoham MD

HOPE Cancer as a Challenge Phd Jacob Shoham MD

Cancer is one of the major challenges for modern medicine. This challenge has two aspects: scientific and medical. Scientifically, it is motivated by the aspiration to unravel fundamental life processes, perturbed by cancer. Medically, it means finding effective ways of prevention, diagnosis and treatment for it. This book aims at reaching this goal. It is an introductory, systematic description for knowledge-seeking people, of some of the exciting discoveries of cancer research. Specific discoveries about the cellular, molecular and genetic aspects of cancer have been and are still triggering the development of diagnostic and therapeutic modalities. There is also increased recognition of the nature of cancer as a complex system, which may generate a paradigm shift in medical thinking about the disease. This may result in a significant change in the medical approach to cancer and serve as a basis for integrative treatment programs, offering hope for more effectively coping with and treatment of this disease. Some principles and implications of the complex system perspective of cancer are presented in the last chapters of this book.