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016 7  101618829|2DNLM 
019    853310597 
020    9781610392525|q(hbk.) 
020    1610392523|q(hbk.) 
020    |z9781610392532|q(ebk.) 
035    (OCoLC)861895337|z(OCoLC)853310597 
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050 04 RS431.A64|bM37 2014 
060 10 QZ 11.1 
082 00 616.99/4061|223 
100 1  Marks, Paul A.,|eauthor. 
245 10 On the cancer frontier :|bone man, one disease, and a 
       medical revolution /|cPaul A. Marks and James Sterngold. 
250    First edition. 
264  1 New York :|bPublicAffairs,|c[2014] 
300    xiv, 251 pages :|billustrations ;|c22 cm 
336    text|2rdacontent 
337    unmediated|2rdamedia 
338    volume|2rdacarrier 
504    Includes index. 
505 0  Cracking medicine's oldest mystery -- Deciphering the 
       inner workings of the cell -- The first look deep inside 
       the cancer cell -- Bringing the new sciences to an old 
       school -- The moon shot -- Teaching cancer cells to die --
       The politics of cancer research -- Memorial Sloan-
       Kettering finds its agent of change -- Getting aggressive 
       in the war on cancer -- A perfect cure- for a single 
       cancer patient -- Changing cancer care from within -- 
       Enlisting a major new ally- the cancer patient -- Breast 
       cancer gets its own home -- Learning to love acid -- The 
       payoff -- Cancer screening as a way of life -- The next 
       leap. 
520    "Paul Marks M.D., President Emeritus of Memorial Sloan-
       Kettering Cancer Hospital, attributes the elusive nature 
       of cancer's cure to its inherently anarchic processes. In 
       1950, the discovery of cancer was all but a death 
       sentence. By 1980, 214 of every 100,000 Americans died 
       from cancer. As late as 1986, an article in the New 
       England Journal of Medicine revealed the less-than-
       optimistic outlook cancer research, publishing the 
       condemning sentence: "We are losing the war against 
       cancer." In fact, though cancer had not been eliminated, 
       it had begun to be identified for what it is. A highly 
       individualistic disease, variable-a guerrilla cell rather 
       than a marching army. Suddenly science learned how to 
       fight the right war-at ever closer quarters. And at the 
       forefront of the momentous chain of discoveries was Paul 
       Marks. Chronicling the insights of researchers and doctors
       around the world and the momentous effects of their pains-
       taking advances- Marks weaves together the humbling 
       account of how and what we learned about the mechanisms of
       malignant and abnormal cells that make up every one of us"
       --Provided by publisher. 
598    AVONNFIC 
600 10 Marks, Paul A. 
600 12 Marks, Paul A. 
650  0 Cancer|xResearch. 
650  0 Cancer|xTreatment|xResearch. 
650  0 Tumors|xTreatment|xResearch. 
650  0 Medicine|xResearch. 
650 12 Neoplasms|xhistory. 
650 22 Antineoplastic Agents|xhistory. 
650 22 Biomedical Research. 
650 22 Cell Transformation, Neoplastic. 
650 22 Medical Oncology|xhistory. 
650 22 Neoplasms|xtherapy. 
700 1  Sterngold, James,|eauthor. 
994    92|bCKE