What Cancer is, What Causes it, the Business of Cancer, and Possible Solutions
What is Cancer? In the year 2000 Douglas Hanahan, and Robert Weinberg had published a paper called the hallmarks of cancer. This was a revolutionary paper because up until this point, researchers only focused on the minutia, and the separate types of cancers. This paper did something different. It wanted to find what is common among all cancers. They had found 6 hallmarks of cancer, and recently added more. These hallmarks include sustaining proliferative signaling, evading growth suppressors, resisting cell death,...