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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...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autores principales: Marks, Paul A. (Autor), Sterngold, James (Autor)
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: New York, NY : PublicAffairs, [2014]
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Acceso en línea:Texto completo
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  • Cracking medicine's oldest mystery
  • Deciphering the inner workings of the cell
  • The first look deep inside the cancer cell
  • Bringing the new sciences to an old school
  • The moon shot
  • Teaching cancer cells to die
  • The politics of cancer research
  • Memorial Sloan-Kettering finds its agent of change
  • Getting aggressive in the war on cancer
  • A perfect cure- for a single cancer patient
  • Changing cancer care from within
  • Enlisting a major new ally- the cancer patient
  • Breast cancer gets its own home
  • Learning to love acid
  • The payoff
  • Cancer screening as a way of life
  • The next leap.