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Racing to a cure : a cancer victim refuses chemotherapy and finds tomorrow's cures in today's scientific laboratories
Title:
Racing to a cure : a cancer victim refuses chemotherapy and finds tomorrow's cures in today's scientific laboratories
Author:
Ruzic, Neil P.
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Publication Information:
Urbana : University of Illinois Press, [2003]

©2003
Physical Description:
xi, 426 pages ; 24 cm
Language:
English
Contents:
Into the pit -- Watch and learn -- The chemo culture -- Life before cancer -- Our war within -- A half-billion for proof -- The language of medicine -- Cancer vaccines -- Premature results -- Co-stimulating T cells -- Do they have to die? -- Alternative magic -- Allies in the quest -- False alarm -- Does prayer work? -- Project indolence -- Cure cancer in ten years -- Think tanks -- Transplants: risk vs. cure -- Pathways to success -- From India with results -- Anti-angiogenesis -- The mystery of splenectomy -- The strep connection -- Patient rage -- The biotherapy revolution -- Detour -- Cure!
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ISBN:
9780252028670
Format :
Book