Racing to a cure : a cancer victim refuses chemotherapy and finds tomorrow's cures in today's scientific laboratories / Neil Ruzic
- Author:
- Ruzic, Neil P.
- Published:
- Urbana : University of Illinois Press, [2003]
- Copyright Date:
- ©2003
- Physical Description:
- xi, 426 pages ; 23 cm
- 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 vaccine -- 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(s):
- ISBN:
- 0252028678 (cloth : alk. paper)
- Bibliography Note:
- Includes bibliographical references (pages [367]-400) and index.
- Source of Acquisition:
- New Kensington copy: Purchased with funds from the Paterno Libraries Endowment; 20034.
- Endowment Note:
- Paterno Libraries Endowment (Campus College Libraries)
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