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The War on Cancer
An Anatomy of Failure, A Blueprint for the Future
ISBN/EAN: 9781402036187
Umbreit-Nr.: 1094357
Sprache:
Englisch
Umfang: xv, 227 S.
Format in cm: 1.7 x 24.7 x 16.6
Einband:
gebundenes Buch
Erschienen am 01.12.2005
Auflage: 1/2005
- Zusatztext
- InhaltsangabeIntroduction Part I Cancer Statistics: Some Facts Chapter 1 Assessing the magnitude of the problem Chapter 2 The problem is growing, not going away Part II What Is Cancer? Chapter 3 Cancer through the ages Chapter 4 Our current understanding Part III How Is Cancer Treated? Chapter 5 The cancer-cell kill paradigm: Hypotheses and corollaries Chapter 6 Chemotherapy drugs Chapter 7 Treatment outcomes: Dismal by any standard Part IV Why Does This System Persist? Chapter 8 The role of the National Cancer Institute Chapter 9 Publications: The facts and nothing but the facts? Chapter 10 From the doctors' perspective Chapter 11 From the patients' perspective Part V Where Do We Go From Here? Chapter 12 A vision for the future Chapter 13 Shifting from the cell-kill paradigm to molecular therapies
- Kurztext
- You will understand why the current approach to the War on Cancer has failed and why it persistsYou will learn about the meagre benefits and side-effects of chemotherapyYou will also learn that a new era of hope is at hand and how to implement itYou will be able to adopt simple measures to prevent your own cancer riskYou will be empowered to demand policy-makers to enact public policies designed to curb cancer causes you cannot control and to eliminate the disconnect between cancer science and cancer care deliveryIncludes supplementary material: sn.pub/extras