The Breast Cancer Wars
Subtitle: Hope, Fear, and the Pursuit of a Cure in Twentieth-Century America
Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA
Published: March 6, 2003
Language: eng
Number of pages: 408
ISBN-13: 9780195161069
First sentence: In a medical school amphitheater in 1963, the assembled physicians and students were watching two people: a woman whose breast cancer had been treated with a radical mastectomy fifteen years previously, and her surgeon, who had just summarized her case.