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Zusatztext A highly readable account of cancer and its successful control... fully abreast of the very latest thinking about its management. Informationen zum Autor 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. Klappentext 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. Zusammenfassung 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. Inhaltsverzeichnis 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?
Inhaltsverzeichnis
- 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?
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I recommend this book to everyone working in health care and all those wanting to know more about cancer and finding a cure.
