Image for Mister Cancer wants to occupy every space. Story of a disrupted cell

Children

Mister Cancer wants to occupy every space. Story of a disrupted cell

by Dr Inna Kuperstein

Available for free as:

Collection : Curious Minds

Imprint: Fondation Ipsen BookLab
Target audience: General public
Age range: From 5 years old

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Pagination: 32 pages
Size: 210 x 210 mm
Binding: Hardcover

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Language: French
Publication: December 2018
Price: 8,90 € (book available from the Actine association)
ISBN: 978-2-914686-91-4

Everything was fine in the human body until the day when a cell multiplied itself to occupy every space and become Mister Cancer. How the immune system and Doctor “Chemo Magician” will arrest Mister Cancer?

About the author

Inna Kuperstein is a researcher and project coordinator. She works at the CNRS in the Institut Curie bioinformatics team on the modeling of molecular networks involved in the progression of cancer.

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