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Author
Publisher
Hay House, Inc
Pub. Date
2016.
Language
English
Description
"One out of three women alive today, and one out of two men, will face a cancer diagnosis, according to the World Health Organization. Ty Bollinger takes this personally: in the course of a decade, he says, "I lost my entire family to cancer. I don't believe I had to lose them." The Truth about Cancer has been written for one simple reason: to share the knowledge we need to protect ourselves, treat ourselves, and in some cases save our lives or the...
Author
Language
English
Description
A "biography" of cancer from its origins to the epic battle to cure, control, and conquer it. A combination of medical history, cutting-edge science, and narrative journalism that transforms the listener's understanding of cancer and much of the world around them. The author provides a glimpse into the future of cancer treatments and offers a bold new perspective on the way doctors, scientists, philosophers, and lay people have observed and understood...
Author
Publisher
Pegasus Books Ltd
Pub. Date
2019.
Language
English
Description
"A fascinating history of cancer as we are on the cusp of a breakthrough for a cure. Through Kinch, we witness the incredible accumulation of breakthrough science and its rapid translation into lifesaving technologies that have begun to dramatically increase the quality and quantity of life for cancer patients."--From jacket flap.
Author
Publisher
[CreateSpace]
Pub. Date
2014.
Language
English
Description
"In the wake of the Cancer Genome Atlas project's failure to provide a legible road map to a cure for cancer, science writer Travis Christofferson illuminates a promising blend of old and new perspectives on the disease. 'Tripping Over the Truth' follows the story of cancers proposed metabolic origin from the vaunted halls of the German scientific golden age, to modern laboratories around the world. The reader is taken on a journey through time and...
Author
Publisher
Taurus
Pub. Date
2011.
Language
Español
Description
"En que punto nos encontramos en nuestra batalla contra el cáncer y cómo hemos llegado hasta aquí? De que forma ha ido cambiando nuestra imagen de esta enfermedad y como ha influido esa evolución en la propia trayectoria del mal? Estamos ganando o perdiendo la guerra contra el cáncer? Esta magistral obra, ganadora del Premio Pulitzer, responde a estas preguntas partiendo de una reciente consideración: el cáncer no es sólo un fenómeno médico....
Author
Publisher
Sarah Crichton Books/Farrar, Straus and Giroux
Pub. Date
©2015.
Language
English
Description
"The true story of the war on cancer from one of its generals In The Death of Cancer, Dr. Vincent T. DeVita Jr.--former director of the National Cancer Institute, former physician-in-chief at Memorial Sloan Kettering, director of the Yale Cancer Center, former president of the American Cancer Society, and developer of the first successful chemotherapy treatment for Hodgkin's lymphoma, which first demonstrated that advanced cancers of a major organ...
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