CABI Book Chapter
Disease selection: the way disease changed the world.
Description
This book contains 20 chapters covering a range of infectious diseases, as well as a few non-infectious diseases such as cancer, and how they greatly affected the course of human history. It explores host-pathogen relationship, transmission routes, evolution, and global spread of infectious diseases including numerous viral, bacterial, protozoal, and helminth infections. It also covers the contrib...
Chapter 16 (Page no: 133)
Cancer.
This chapter describes the incidence of cancer (e.g., breast cancer, prostate cancer, bowel cancer), the viral (hepatitis B virus in liver cancer, human papillomavirus in cervical cancer, and Epstein-Barr virus in non-Hodgkin's lymphoma, nasopharyngeal cancer and Burkitt's lymphoma) and parasitic (
Schistosoma haematobium in bladder cancer and
Clonorchis sinensis in cholangiocarcinoma) causes of cancer, and the prevention of cancer (e.g., not smoking or not drinking excessive amounts of alcohol, dietary modification, and vaccination for viral cancers).
Other chapters from this book
| Chapter: 1 (Page no: 1)
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The sexual revolution.
Author(s):
Webber, R.
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| Chapter: 2 (Page no: 10)
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Out of Africa.
Author(s):
Webber, R.
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| Chapter: 3 (Page no: 21)
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Host/parasite interaction.
Author(s):
Webber, R.
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| Chapter: 4 (Page no: 35)
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Using a vector.
Author(s):
Webber, R.
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| Chapter: 5 (Page no: 53)
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The great plagues.
Author(s):
Webber, R.
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| Chapter: 6 (Page no: 60)
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Missionaries of death.
Author(s):
Webber, R.
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| Chapter: 7 (Page no: 66)
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The slave trade in parasites.
Author(s):
Webber, R.
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| Chapter: 8 (Page no: 74)
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Eden's Garden of South America.
Author(s):
Webber, R.
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| Chapter: 9 (Page no: 81)
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A glass of water.
Author(s):
Webber, R.
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| Chapter: 10 (Page no: 88)
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The Great War.
Author(s):
Webber, R.
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| Chapter: 11 (Page no: 93)
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Man's best friend?
Author(s):
Webber, R.
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| Chapter: 12 (Page no: 107)
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The animal connection.
Author(s):
Webber, R.
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| Chapter: 13 (Page no: 114)
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Not clean.
Author(s):
Webber, R.
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| Chapter: 14 (Page no: 119)
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Too clean.
Author(s):
Webber, R.
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| Chapter: 15 (Page no: 124)
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The food we eat.
Author(s):
Webber, R.
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| Chapter: 17 (Page no: 137)
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Climate change and population movements.
Author(s):
Webber, R.
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| Chapter: 18 (Page no: 141)
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Disappeared and emergent diseases.
Author(s):
Webber, R.
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| Chapter: 19 (Page no: 146)
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The future.
Author(s):
Webber, R.
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| Chapter: 20 (Page no: 152)
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Conclusions.
Author(s):
Webber, R.
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