Gaspar Banfalvi

2014

The understanding of tumor growth is closely related to the basic knowledge of homeostasis, which maintains among several other functions the balance between cell growth and cell death. The first part of the book deals with homeostasis mainly at organismal level, which one could also summarize in one word: health. The loss of growth balance by the overproduction of certain cell types is known as tumor formation, dealt with in the second major part of the book.