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The Cancer Chronicles: Unlocking Medicine's Deepest Mystery By .9781847921666
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- The Cancer Chronicles: Unlocking Medicine's Deepest Mystery
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- 9781847921666
- Publication Year
- 2013
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- English
- Publication Name
- The Cancer Chronicles: Unlocking Medicine's Deepest Mystery
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- Subject
- Medicine
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When the woman he loved was diagnosed with a metastatic cancer, science-writer George Johnson embarked on a journey to learn everything he could about the disease and the people who dedicate their lives to understanding and combating it. What he discovered is that a revolution is now under way an explosion of new ideas about what cancer really is and where it comes from. He combs through the realms of epidemiology, clinical trials, laboratory experiments and scientific hypotheses, to reveal what we know and don t know about cancer, showing why a cure remains such a slippery concept. His luminous accounts describe tumors that evolve like alien creatures inside the body, paleo-oncologists who uncover petrified tumors clinging to the skeletons of dinosaurs and ancient human ancestors, and the surprising reversals in science s comprehension of the causes of cancer, with the foods we eat and environmental toxins playing a lesser role. Perhaps most fascinating of all is how cancer borrows natural processes involved in the healing of a wound or the unfolding of a human embryo and turns them against the body. Throughout his pursuit, Johnson illuminates the human experience with elegi
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The Cancer Chronicles: Unlocking Medicine's Deepest Mystery
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Hardcover
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English
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Medicine
Publication Year
2013
Type
Textbook
Number of Pages
304 Pages
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240mm
Item Width
162mm
Item Weight
542g
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Popular Medicine
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