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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.
Pennsylvania Hospital Library - Reserve QZ 11.1 D496d 2016
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- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- DeVita, Vincent T., Jr., 1935-
- 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
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