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Author:

Johnson, George, 1952 January 20-

Title:

The cancer chronicles : unlocking medicine's deepest mystery / George Johnson.

Edition:

First edition.

Publisher:

Alfred A. Knopf,

Copyright Date:

2013

Description:

xii, 284 pages ; 22 cm

Subject:

Cancer--Etiology--Popular works.
Cancer--Research--Popular works.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references (pages [205]-268) and index.

Contents:

Jurassic cancer -- Nancy's story -- The consolations of anthropology -- Invasion of the body snatchers -- Information sickness -- "How heart cells embrace their fate" -- Where cancer really comes from -- "Adriamycin and posole for Christmas Eve" -- Deeper into the cancer cell -- The metabolic mess -- Gambling with radiation -- The immortal demon -- Beware the echthroi -- Joe's cancer.

ISBN:

0307595145 (hbk.)
9780307595140 (hbk.) :

OCLC:

(OCoLC)825106433

LCCN:

2012048474

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