Cancer Simply Explained: What Is Cancer and What Can We Do about It?
暫譯: 癌症簡明解說：什麼是癌症，我們能做些什麼？

癌症是全球最令人畏懼的疾病之一，影響著任何人。但如果您能夠擁有扎實的科學知識來理解、預防、檢測和治療癌症，會怎樣呢？

本書以易於理解的方式提供有關癌症的成因、預防和治療的所有基本資訊。它在保持醫學精確性的同時，以簡單的術語進行解釋，並使用生動的比較。通過使用在其他癌症書籍中找不到的現實世界類比，將複雜的主題變得易於接觸。視覺上吸引人，結合了資訊內容和視覺輔助工具，以促進理解。

無論您是患者、倖存者，還是僅僅感興趣，本書都提供了寶貴的資訊，以更好地理解和管理癌症。

Dr. Visar Vela is a medical diagnostic assistant. His passion for cancer research and diagnostics arose while working on his master's thesis, which involved researching blood cancer in Adrian Ochsenbein's lab at the University of Bern. During his PhD in biological medicine, he uncovered the mutational landscape of a rare lymphoma type at the Department of Pathology in Basel under Stefan Dirnhofer and Alexandar Tzankov. By writing this book, he hopes that the reader will get the best possible information about cancer development and cancer diagnostics.

Besides having a passion for cancer research, Dr. Vela loves jogging, sailing, and cycling. He grew up in the lovely Swiss Alps, in the Valais. He still has his most creative phases at the airport. He says that airports are great sources of problems that need solving, such as cancer research.

MSc. Besmira Sabani, a dedicated PhD candidate at Zürich University of Applied Sciences in Wädenswil, Zurich, delves into the innovative field of pharmaceutical technology and drug discovery in Steffi Lehmann's lab. With a strong focus on the development of potential drug delivery systems, Sabani's work highlights her journey from her early academic years to her first publication on novel functionalization strategy for the target delivery of extracellular vesicles (EVs) to cancer therapy. She is passionate about finding new approaches in nanotechnology enabling the targeted delivery of drugs to their site of action. With this book she hopes that the reader will get more information about the latest cancer treatment technologies.

Besides having a passion for cancer research, Miss Sabani loves cycling and solving puzzles, similar to cancer, whose complexity is puzzling us for decades. She grew up in Minusio, Ticino.

Dr. med. Günther Spahn studied medicine in Tübingen. For his MD in immunology and vaccine research, he worked at the Luxembourg National Institute as a pioneer in the field of measles vaccine research with Prof. Claude Muller. For his biomedical postdoc, he joined Prof. Pecher at Max Delbrück-Institute in Berlin in the field of cancer immunology before starting his clinical career as an academic trainee at Charité Berlin in hematology and oncology. As a scientific member of the leukemia and lymphoma network in Germany, he worked as a consultant in multiple clinical centers. Today, he has his own outpatient clinic for integrative oncology Mainz. His main focus is supporting patients with cancer and their families in all aspects of care: prevention, treatment, rehabilitation, complementary medicine and palliative care in the field of cancer medicine. With this book, he wants to teach us how to fight cancer before it starts and the options we have besides conventional treatment.

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Dr. med. Laurence Favet is a highly skilled and experienced medical professional with an impressive background in medical studies, internal medicine, and oncology specialty. Since opening her own private practice in Geneva 13 years ago, Dr. Favet has been providing exceptional care to patients in her outpatient clinic while maintaining close communications with Geneva University Hospital. She is passionate about helping patients understand and cope with their disease and treatment and uses her expertise to provide them with the best care possible. She hopes that some of the images in this book, which have taken shape through discussions with the authors and patients, will also help the reader.

Dr. Visar Vela 是一位醫學診斷助理。他對癌症研究和診斷的熱情源於他在伯恩大學的 Adrian Ochsenbein 實驗室進行血癌研究的碩士論文。在他的生物醫學博士學位期間，他在巴塞爾的病理學系，於 Stefan Dirnhofer 和 Alexandar Tzankov 的指導下，揭示了一種罕見淋巴瘤類型的突變景觀。通過撰寫這本書，他希望讀者能獲得有關癌症發展和癌症診斷的最佳資訊。

除了對癌症研究的熱情外，Vela 博士還喜歡慢跑、航海和騎自行車。他在美麗的瑞士阿爾卑斯山的 Valais 長大。他仍然在機場度過他最具創意的時光。他表示，機場是需要解決的問題的絕佳來源，例如癌症研究。

MSc. Besmira Sabani 是位於瑞士瓦登斯維爾的蘇黎世應用科技大學的專注博士候選人，深入研究製藥技術和藥物發現，並在 Steffi Lehmann 的實驗室工作。Sabani 的工作強調了她從早期學術生涯到首次發表有關外泌體 (EVs) 針對癌症治療的創新功能化策略的旅程，並強調了潛在藥物傳遞系統的開發。她熱衷於尋找新的納米技術方法，以實現藥物的靶向傳遞。通過這本書，她希望讀者能獲得有關最新癌症治療技術的更多資訊。

除了對癌症研究的熱情外，Sabani 小姐還喜歡騎自行車和解謎，這與癌症的複雜性相似，這種複雜性困擾著我們數十年。她在瑞士的 Ticino 的 Minusio 長大。

Günther Spahn 醫學博士在圖賓根學習醫學。為了獲得免疫學和疫苗研究的醫學博士學位，他在盧森堡國立研究所與 Claude Muller 教授合作，成為麻疹疫苗研究領域的先驅。作為生物醫學的博士後研究員，他加入了柏林的 Max Delbrück-Institute，專注於癌症免疫學，然後開始了他的臨床職業生涯，成為 Charité 柏林的學術實習生，專注於血液學和腫瘤學。作為德國白血病和淋巴瘤網絡的科學成員，他在多個臨床中心擔任顧問。如今，他在美因茨擁有自己的整合腫瘤學門診診所。他的主要重點是支持癌症患者及其家庭在護理的各個方面：預防、治療、康復、輔助醫學和癌症醫學中的緩和醫療。通過這本書，他希望教導我們如何在癌症發生之前進行抗擊，以及除了傳統治療之外的選擇。

貢獻者：
Laurence Favet 醫學博士是一位技術高超且經驗豐富的醫療專業人士，擁有醫學研究、內科和腫瘤學專業的卓越背景。自 13 年前在日內瓦開設自己的私人診所以來，Favet 博士一直在她的門診診所為患者提供卓越的護理，同時與日內瓦大學醫院保持密切的聯繫。她熱衷於幫助患者理解和應對他們的疾病和治療，並利用她的專業知識為他們提供最佳的護理。她希望這本書中的一些圖片，通過與作者和患者的討論而形成，也能幫助讀者。