Why Millions Survive Cancer - Lauren Pecorino

Why Millions Survive Cancer

The successes of science

(Autor)

Buch | Softcover
246 Seiten
2012
Oxford University Press (Verlag)
978-0-19-965875-6 (ISBN)
20,55 inkl. MwSt
The enormous recent progress in fighting cancer, and the science behind it, is revealed fully for the first time in this book. Using scientific evidence from around the world, Lauren Pecorino examines the biology of cancer, looks at new cancer treatments, and provides recommendations about lifestyle choices that can help reduce our cancer risk.
The enormous recent progress in fighting cancer, and the science behind it, is revealed fully for the first time in this book. The disease affects one in three over a lifetime but today more and more people are surviving as a result of the extraordinary and little known advances of science and medicine.

Using scientific evidence from world cancer experts, Lauren Pecorino helps us understand the biology of cancer, the recent trends in cancer progress, and the rationale behind new cancer treatments. With recommendations about lifestyle choices that can help reduce some of the risks of getting cancer, Pecorino looks to the future in our battle with this disease.

Lauren Pecorino is currently a principal lecturer at the University of Grenwich. She has presented guest lectures in Rome and Palermo, Italy; Istanbul, Turkey; Cairo, Egypt and the USA. She is the author of an international university textbook on the molecular biology of cancer and cancer therapeutics, published by Oxford University Press.

1. Introduction to the good news ; 2. What is cancer? ; 3. Carcinogens: How they work and our defence against them ; 4. All we had to do was quit ; 5. Too much of a good thing ; 6. The great escape ; 7. You are what you eat (and do) ; 8. A fairy tale: Finding the cure to leukemia ; 9. Cancer screening works ; 10. Let's talk about it ; 11. How to starve a tumour ; 12. A vaccine against cervical cancer ; 13. A fit like a glove ; 14. Where do we go from here?

Erscheint lt. Verlag 26.7.2012
Zusatzinfo 19 black and white line drawings, 7 photographs, and 1 4pp colour plate section
Verlagsort Oxford
Sprache englisch
Maße 130 x 196 mm
Gewicht 278 g
Themenwelt Sachbuch/Ratgeber Gesundheit / Leben / Psychologie
Sachbuch/Ratgeber Natur / Technik
Medizin / Pharmazie Medizinische Fachgebiete Onkologie
ISBN-10 0-19-965875-7 / 0199658757
ISBN-13 978-0-19-965875-6 / 9780199658756
Zustand Neuware
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