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The cancer chronicles : unlocking medicine's deepest mystery / George Johnson.
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Johnson, George, 1952 January 20-
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English
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First edition.
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New York : Alfred A. Knopf, 2013.
Description
xii, 284 pages ; 22 cm
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Firestone Library - Stacks
RC268.48 .J64 2013
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Summary note
New theories question cancer as we know it in this exploration of the latest theories that could help us better understand and treat cancer in the years to come. Learn what diet and dinosaurs' skeletons can tell us about the nature of cancer, where cancer comes from, how tumors grow, and more.
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Includes bibliographical references (pages [205]-268) and index.
Contents
Jurassic cancer
Nancy's story
The consolations of anthropology
Invasion of the body snatchers
Information sickness
"How heart cells embrace their fate"
Where cancer really comes from
"Adriamycin and posole for Christmas Eve"
Deeper into the cancer cell
The metabolic mess
Gambling with radiation
The immortal demon
Beware the echthroi
Joe's cancer.
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ISBN
9780307595140 ((hbk.))
0307595145 ((hbk.))
9781847921666
1847921663
9780307742308
030774230X
LCCN
2012048474
OCLC
825106433
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