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Conference 2011

Center for Evolution and Cancer
Conference 2011

First Biannual international Evolution and Cancer Conference

June 3-5, 2011
University of California San Francisco, Mission Bay Campus

Reports from Conference 2011

Forty years on from Nixon's war, cancer research 'evolves'
The Self-ish Cell: Cancer’s emerging evolutionary paradigm A report from the First International Biannual Evolution and Cancer Conference

Hosts:
Center for Evolution and Cancer
Helen Diller Family Comprehensive Cancer Center

Topics:

Evolution in neoplastic progression
Evolution in therapeutic resistance
Evolution of cancer suppression in multicellular organisms
Social evolution in cancer
Human evolution and cancer susceptibility

The conference was made possible with support from the UCSF Helen Diller Family Comprehensive Cancer Center, the UCSF Department of Surgery, Nodality Inc., and the National Evolutionary Synthesis Center.