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On the Cancer Frontier - One Man, One Disease, and a Medical Revolution (Hardcover)
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On the Cancer Frontier - One Man, One Disease, and a Medical Revolution (Hardcover)
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In 1950, a diagnosis of cancer was all but a death sentence.
Mortality rates only got worse, and as late as 1986, an article in
the New England Journal of Medicine lamented: We are losing the war
against cancer." Cancer is one of humankind's oldest and most
persistent enemies it has been called the existential disease.But
we are now entering a new, and more positive, phase in this long
campaign. While cancer has not been cured,and a cure may elude us
for a long time yet,there has been a revolution in our
understanding of its nature. Years of brilliant science have
revealed how this individualistic disease seizes control of the
foundations of life,our genes,and produces guerrilla cells that can
attack and elude treatments. Armed with those insights, scientists
have been developing more effective weapons and producing better
outcomes for patients. Paul A. Marks, MD, has been a leader in
these efforts to finally control this devastating disease.Marks
helped establish the strategy for the war on cancer" in 1971 as a
researcher and member of President Nixon's cancer panel. As the
president and chief executive officer for nineteen years at the
world's pre-eminent cancer hospital, the Memorial Sloan-Kettering
Cancer centre, he was instrumental in ending the years of futility.
He also developed better therapies that promise a new era of cancer
containment. Some cancers, like childhood leukemia and
non-Hodgkin's lymphoma, that were once deadly conditions, are now
survivable,even curable. New steps in prevention and early
diagnosis are giving patients even more hope. On the Cancer
Frontier is Marks' account of the transformation in our
understanding of cancer and why there is growing optimism in our
ability to stop it.
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