Cancer occurs in almost all animal species and has affected humans since our species began to walk the earth. In Rebel Cage, Kat Arney reveals the secrets of our most formidable enemy in disease. First of all, it shows that it is not so much an external invader as a kind of “double agent”: cancer is tightly woven into the fundamental processes of life itself. New scientific evidence suggests that this disease is the result of the same evolutionary changes that have allowed humanity to flourish. Evolution has taught us how to outsmart our environment; but it also helps cancer do this - and in its case, alas, we ourselves are the “environment.” Explaining why our ideas about cancer are mostly wrong, Arnie, a geneticist and honored popularizer of science, with unique wit and extreme logic introduces readers to the latest research on rogue cells that rebel against the rigidly organized biological "community" that is the body and head straight into anarchy.