The cancer chronicles
Subtitle: unlocking medicine's deepest mystery
By: George Johnson
Edition: First Vintage Books edition.
Published: 2014
Language: eng
Number of pages: 284
ISBN-13: 9780307742308
Subjects: Etiology; Cancer; Tumors; Neoplasms; Popular works; Research
Description: Deftly excavating and illuminating decades of investigation and analysis, rooted in every discipline from evolutionary biology to game theory and physics, Johnson explores what we know--and what we still don't--about cancer, and why a cure remains such a slippery goal.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (pages 205-268) and index.
Table of contents: title: Jurassic cancer --; title: Nancy's story --; title: The consolations of anthropology --; title: Invasion of the body snatchers --; title: Information sickness --; title: "How heart cells embrace their fate" --; title: Where cancer really comes from --; title: "Adriamycin and posole for Christmas Eve" --; title: Deeper into the cancer cell --; title: The metabolic mess --; title: Gambling with radiation --; title: The immortal demon --; title: Beware the echthroi -- -- Epilogue:; title: Joe's cancer.