Bibliograph

On the cancer frontier, one man, one disease, and a medical revolution, Paul A. Marks, MD, and James Sterngold

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On the cancer frontier, one man, one disease, and a medical revolution, Paul A. Marks, MD, and James Sterngold

Language

eng

Bibliography note

Includes bibliographical references and index

Index

index present

Literary Form

non fiction

Main title

On the cancer frontier

Nature of contents

dictionariesbibliography

Oclc number

869090866

Responsibility statement

Paul A. Marks, MD, and James Sterngold

Sub title

one man, one disease, and a medical revolution

Summary

Paul Marks M.D., President Emeritus of Memorial Sloan-Kettering Cancer Hospital, attributes the elusive nature of cancer's cure to its inherently anarchic processes. There can be no hope for a miracle cure when defective cells use a myriad of tools to succeed in their relentless assaults. There are many ways cancers get started, and turn healthy cell division and growth into lethal attacks. Cancer cells and their abnormal genes are inherently unstable and so, are able to fight off anything that gets in their way?often a prescribed drug. In 1950 the discovery of cancer was all b

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