On the cancer frontier : one man, one disease, and a medical revolution / Paul A. Marks and James Sterngold.
By: Marks, Paul A [author.]
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Contributor(s): Sterngold, James [author.].
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TextPublisher: New York : PublicAffairs, [2014]Edition: First edition.Bibliography: Includes bibliographical references and index.Description: xiv, 251 pages ; 22 cm.Content type: text Media type: unmediated Carrier type: volumeISBN: 9781610392525 (hbk.); 1610392523 (hbk.).Subject(s): Marks, Paul A | Cancer -- Research | Cancer -- Treatment -- Research | Tumors -- Treatment -- Research | Medicine -- ResearchDDC classification: 616.99/4061 | Item type | Current library | Collection | Call number | Status | Date due | Barcode | |
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| Two Weeks | Davenport Library Circulating Collection | Print-Circulating | 616.994061 M342 2014 (Browse shelf(Opens below)) | Available | 34284003491909 |
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Includes bibliographical references and index.
Cracking medicine's oldest mystery -- Deciphering the inner workings of the cell -- The first look deep inside the cancer cell -- Bringing the new sciences to an old school -- The moon shot -- Teaching cancer cells to die -- The politics of cancer research -- Memorial Sloan-Kettering finds its agent of change -- Getting aggressive in the war on cancer -- A perfect cure- for a single cancer patient -- Changing cancer care from within -- Enlisting a major new ally- the cancer patient -- Breast cancer gets its own home -- Learning to love acid -- The payoff -- Cancer screening as a way of life -- The next leap.
Chronicles the insights of researchers and doctors from around the world and their advances in understanding and treating cancerous cells.
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