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Why Millions Survive Cancer
More than 12 million cancer survivors just in the United States alone are alive today as a result of the extraordinary advances in science and medicine. In Why Millions Survive Cancer, Lauren Pecorino illuminates the enormous recent progress in fighting cancer, painting an intriguing portrait of sci...
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Oxford ; New York
Oxford University Press
2011
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Table of Contents:
- Introduction to the good news
- What is cancer?
- Carcinogens: how they work and our defense against them
- All we had to do was quit
- Too much of a good thing
- The great escape
- You are what you eat (and do)
- A fairy tale: finding the cure to leukemia
- Cancer screening works!
- Let's talk about it
- How to starve a tumor
- A vaccine against cervical cancer
- A fit like a glove
- Where do we go from here?