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The cancer chronicles

unlocking medicine's deepest mystery

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An edition of The cancer chronicles (2014)

The cancer chronicles

unlocking medicine's deepest mystery

First Vintage Books edition.

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Deftly excavating and illuminating decades of investigation and analysis, rooted in every discipline from evolutionary biology to game theory and physics, Johnson explores what we know--and what we still don't--about cancer, and why a cure remains such a slippery goal.

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English
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284

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Etiology, Cancer, Tumors, Neoplasms, Popular works, Research, Recherche medicale, Vulgarisation scientifique, New York Times reviewed, Cancer, etiology, Cancer, popular works

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The cancer chronicles: unlocking medicine's deepest mystery
2014
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Table of Contents

Jurassic cancer --
Nancy's story --
The consolations of anthropology --
Invasion of the body snatchers --
Information sickness --
"How heart cells embrace their fate" --
Where cancer really comes from --
"Adriamycin and posole for Christmas Eve" --
Deeper into the cancer cell --
The metabolic mess --
Gambling with radiation --
The immortal demon --
Beware the echthroi -- -- Epilogue:
Joe's cancer.

Edition Notes

Includes bibliographical references (pages 205-268) and index.

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Dewey Decimal Class
616.994
Library of Congress
RC268.48 .J64 2014, RC268.48 .J64 2013

The Physical Object

Pagination
xii, 284 pages
Number of pages
284

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Open Library
OL26887488M
Internet Archive
cancerchronicles0000john
ISBN 10
030774230X
ISBN 13
9780307742308
LCCN
2012048474
OCLC/WorldCat
863596168

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