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On the cancer frontier : one man, one disease, and a medical revolution /
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...
| Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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| Autores principales: | , |
| Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
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New York, NY :
PublicAffairs,
[2014]
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| Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
| Sumario: | 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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| Descripción Física: | 1 online resource (273 pages) |
| Bibliografía: | Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| ISBN: | 9781610392532 1610392531 9781610392525 1610392523 9781306438025 1306438020 |