The truth in small doses
Subtitle: why we're losing the war on cancer-and how to win it
By: Clifton Leaf
Publisher: Simon & Schuster
Published: 2013
Place of publication: New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 499
ISBN-13: 9781476739984; 9781476739991; 9781476740003
Subjects: Forschung; MEDICAL; Economics; Krebs; Treatment; Chemotherapy; Popular Works; Mortality; History, 20th Century; Oncology; Cancer; Neoplasms; Pharmakologie; Epidemiologie; Drug Discovery; History; Antineoplastic Agents; Drug therapy
Description: A decade ago Leaf, a cancer survivor himself, began to investigate why we had made such limited progress fighting this terrifying disease. The result is a gripping narrative that reveals why the public's immense investment in research has been badly misspent, why scientists seldom collaborate and share their data, why new drugs are so expensive yet routinely fail, and why our best hope for progress-- brilliant young scientists-- are now abandoning the search for a cure.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (pages 393-480) and index.
Table of contents: title: Counting; title: The truth in small doses; title: A war of attrition; title: The soldier; title: The little orange pill; title: Missing the target; title: Preemption; title: The wrong bill; title: The door question; title: Publish and perish; title: Deadly caution; title: Reversal of fortune; title: Fossils; title: The one-eyed surgeon; title: Matterhorn.