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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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主要作者: Lauren Pecorino
格式: Printed Book
出版: Oxford ; New York Oxford University Press 2011
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書本目錄:
  • 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?