IDEA Collider | Pharma Book Club | Kat Arney

<p> (Now also released in paperback: <a href="https://amzn.to/3lWjo2B">https://amzn.to/3lWjo2B</a>) </p><p>Kat can be found at <a href="https://firstcreatethemedia.com/">First Create The Media</a>:  and on Twitter: @Kat_Arney </p><p>Find out more about Rebel Cell here: <a href="https://www.rebelcellbook.com/about-rebel-cell-cancer-book">https://www.rebelcellbook.com/about-rebel-cell-cancer-book</a></p><p>Many of us think of cancer as a contemporary killer, a disease of our own making caused by our modern lifestyles. But, as Kat Arney explains in her new book REBEL CELL: Cancer Evolution and the Science of Life, that perception just isn’t true. Although it might be rare in many species, cancer is the enemy lurking within almost every living creature. Why? Because cancer is a bug in the system of life. We get cancer because we can't not get it.</p><p>Cancer has always been with us. It killed our hominid ancestors, the mammals they evolved from and the dinosaurs that trampled the ground before that. Tumours grow in pets, livestock and wild animals. Even tiny jelly-like Hydra - creatures that are little more than a tube full of water - can get cancer.</p><p>Cancer starts when cells rebel against the social norms of the body, throwing off their molecular shackles and growing out of control in a shambolic mockery of normal life. This is why we can't avoid cancer: because the very genes that drive it are essential for life itself.<br />The revolution has raged, on and off, for millions of years. But it was only in the twentieth century that doctors and scientists made any significant progress in understanding and treating cancer, and it is only in the past few decades that we’ve finally begun to kick the mob’s malignant arse.</p><p>Now the game is changing. Scientists have infiltrated cancer's cellular rebellion and are finally learning its secrets. Seeing cancer in a new way – as rebel cells adapting and evolving within the landscape of the body – is pointing towards new ways of preventing and controlling cancer in the