The death of cancer : after fifty years on the front lines of medicine, a pioneering oncologist reveals why the war on cancer is winnable--and how we can get there / Vincent T. DeVita, Jr., M.D., Elizabeth DeVita-Raeburn.

Format:

• Book

Author/Creator:

• DeVita, Vincent T., Jr., 1935-

Contributor:

• DeVita-Raeburn, Elizabeth.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

• DeVita, Vincent T., Jr., 1935-.
• Cancer--History.
• Cancer--Chemotherapy.
• Oncologists--United States--Biography.
• Neoplasms--history.
• Neoplasms--drug therapy.
• Medical Oncology.
• History, 20th Century.
• History, 21st Century.
• Cancer.
• Oncologists.
• United States.

Medical Subjects:

• DeVita, Vincent T., Jr., 1935-.
• Neoplasms--history.
• Neoplasms--drug therapy.
• Medical Oncology.
• History, 20th Century.
• History, 21st Century.

Genre:

• Biographies.
• History.

Physical Description:

[336] pages : illustrations ; 21 cm

Place of Publication:

New York : Sarah Crichton Books, 2016.

Contents:

• Introduction
• Outrageous fortune
• The chemotherapists
• MOMP
• MOPP
• The war on cancer
• Boots on the ground
• Cleaning house at the National Cancer Institute
• Frances Kelsey syndrome
• Where rubber meets the road
• The death of cancer
• Outrageous fortune part II.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references (pages 303-306) and index.

ISBN:

• 9780374536480
• 0374536481

OCLC:

932060391