On the Cancer Frontier: One Man, One Disease, and a Medical Revolution

by James Sterngold and Paul A. Marks

Book Overview

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 --...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1610392523
• ISBN13: 9781610392525
• Release Date: March 2014
• Publisher: PublicAffairs
• Length: 272 Pages
• Weight: 1.85 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.1" x 5.7" x 8.3"