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Author Ruzic, Neil P.

Title Racing to a cure : a cancer victim refuses chemotherapy and finds tomorrow's cures in today's scientific laboratories / Neil Ruzic.

Publication Info. Urbana : University of Illinois Press, [2003]
©2003

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 New Britain, Main Library - Non Fiction  362.1969 R94    Check Shelf
Description xi, 426 pages ; 24 cm
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references (pages [367]-400) and index.
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!
Subject Ruzic, Neil P. -- Health.
Lymphomas -- Patients -- United States -- Biography.
Biological response modifiers.
Cancer -- Research.
Cancer -- Alternative treatment.
Lymphoma -- Mantle-Cell -- therapy -- Personal Narratives.
Medicine -- Research -- Personal Narratives.
ISBN 0252028678 cloth alkaline paper
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