The Cheating Cell: How Evolution Drives Us to Get Sick and What We Can Do About It

To get rid of it at any cost—or turn it into an ally? Athena Aktipis, an evolutionary biologist and cancer biologist, offers a new perspective on cancer and its treatment. In her book, she explains when and why cancer emerged, what makes cancer always accompany multicellular life and develop in parallel with it, how cancer behaves inside the body, and whether it can be controlled.

If you still haven’t managed to defeat cancer, maybe it’s time to rethink your attitude toward it—understand its logic and use this knowledge for treatment. The evolutionary approach considered by Athena Aktipis takes into account cancer’s unpredictable nature and aims to find methods for long-term containment of the disease—something that could become a breakthrough.