Why Millions Survive Cancer : the Successes of Science /

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The enormous recent progress in fighting cancer, and the science behind it, is revealed fully for the first time in this book. The disease affects one in three over a lifetime but today more and more people are surviving as a result of the extraordinary and little known advances of science and medic...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autor principal: Pecorino, Lauren
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Oxford ; New York : Oxford University Press, 2011.
Temas:
Cancer > Treatment.
Cancer.
Cancer > Prevention.
Neoplasms > therapy
Early Detection of Cancer
Disease-Free Survival
Neoplasms > mortality
Neoplasms
Cancer > Traitement.
Cancer > Prévention.
HEALTH & FITNESS > Diseases > Cancer.
MEDICAL > Oncology.
Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • 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?

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