On the Cancer Frontier: One Man, One Disease, and a Medical Revolution
By Unknown Author.
Description
In 1950, a diagnosis of cancer was all but a death sentence. Mortality rates only got worse, and as late as 1986, an article in the New England Journal of Medicine lamented: We are losing the war against cancer.” Cancer is one of humankind’s oldest and most persistent enemies; it has been called the existential disease.But we are now entering a new, and more positive, phase in this long campaign. While cancer has not been curedand a cure may elude us for a long time yetthere has been a revolution in our understanding of its nature. Years of brilliant science have revealed how...
ISBN(s)
1610392523, 9781610392525
