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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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The cancer chronicles: unlocking medicine's deepest mystery
2014
in English
- First Vintage Books edition.
030774230X 9780307742308
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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.
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Includes bibliographical references (pages 205-268) and index.
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