The War on Cancer [electronic resource] : An Anatomy of Failure, a Blueprint for the Future
Faguet, Guy B.
Dordrecht   : Springer,
2008.
After reviewing the history of cancer and its impact on the population, the author exposes the antiquated notions that have driven cancer drug development, documents the stagnation in treatment outcomes despite major advances in cancer genomics and growing NCI budgets, and identifies the multiple factors that sustain the status quo.
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Introduction; Assessing the Magnitude of the Problem; The Problem is Growing, Not Going Away; Cancer Theough the Ages; Our Current Understanding; The Cancer Cell-Kill Paradigm and Its Corollaries; Chemotherapy Drugs; Treatment Outcomes: Dismal by Any Standard; The Role of the National Cancer Institute; Publications: The Facts and Nothing but the Facts?; From the Doctors' Perspective; From the Patients' Perspective; A Vision for the Future; Shifting from the Cell-Kill Paradigm to Pharmacogenomics; Conclusions
After reviewing the history of cancer and its impact on the population, the author exposes the antiquated notions that have driven cancer drug development, documents the stagnation in treatment outcomes despite major advances in cancer genomics and growing NCI budgets, and identifies the multiple factors that sustain the status quo.
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Cancer.