Synopsis

Deep within you, your immune system performs a silent act of preservation, eliminating a rogue cell before it can develop into cancer—a life-saving event repeated countless times. The overwhelming majority of cancerous cells that arise within us are neutralized without our conscious awareness. This is a formidable task, considering the nature of cancer itself: aberrant parts of the body that begin to act independently, often to our detriment. What, then, is cancer, and how does the body maintain