On the cancer frontier : one man, one disease, and a medical revolution / Paul Marks and James Sterngold ; Linda Mark, book design.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Marks, Paul.

Contributor:

Sterngold, James.

Mark, Linda.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Marks, Paul A.

Cancer--Research.

Cancer.

Cancer--Treatment--Research.

Tumors--Treatment--Research.

Tumors.

Medicine--Research.

Medicine.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (273 p.)

Edition:

First edition.

Place of Publication:

2014.

New York : Public Affairs, 2014.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

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

Contents:

Contents; Preface; 1. Cracking Medicine's Oldest Mystery; 2. Deciphering the Inner Workings of the Cell; 3. The First Look Deep Inside the Cancer Cell; 4. Bringing the New Sciences to an Old School; 5. The Moon Shot; 6. Teaching Cancer Cells to Die; 7. The Politics of Cancer Research; 8. Memorial Sloan-Kettering Finds Its Agent of Change; 9. Getting Aggressive in the War on Cancer; 10. A Perfect Cure-For a Single Cancer Patient; 11. Changing Cancer Care from Within; 12. Enlisting a Major New Ally-The Cancer Patient; 13. Breast Cancer Gets Its Own Home; 14. Learning to Love Acid

15. The Payoff16. Cancer Screening as a Way of Life; 17. The Next Leap; Acknowledgments; Index

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Includes index.

Description based on print version record.

ISBN:

1-61039-253-1