The Cancer Chronicles Unlocking Medicine's Deepest Mystery

• Main Author: Johnson, George 1952- (Author)
• Format: Book
• Language: English
• Published: New York Alfred A. Knopf 2013
• Subjects: Neoplasms
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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 a revolution under way an explosion of n...

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
• Joe's cancer.