Robin Hesketh Books

The textbook provides a comprehensive introduction to cancer, featuring updated content that includes 50% new material. It covers essential principles and recent research regarding cancer's causes, growth, detection, and treatment. To enhance student learning, the book employs a structured presentation style, incorporates 'Pause and Recap' sections, and offers end-of-chapter review questions along with supplementary online resources.

This book will enable general readers to understand the molecular features of cancer. It answers the questions commonly asked about cancer, looks at the global statistics, describes how damage to DNA (aka mutations) corrupts the behaviour of cells, explains current therapies and how treatments may advance in future.