Malignant : how cancer becomes us /

Malignant : how cancer becomes us / S. Lochlann Jain.

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"Cancer can kill: this fact makes it concrete. Still, it's a devious knave. Nearly every American will experience it up-close and all too personally, wondering why the billions of research dollars thrown at the word haven't exterminated it from the English language. Like a sapper diff...

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Online Access: Full Text (via ProQuest)
Main Author: Jain, Sarah S. Lochlann, 1967-
Format: eBook
Language:English
Published: Berkeley : University of California Press, 2013.
Subjects:
Cancer > Government policy > United States.
Cancer > Research > United States.
Cancer > Risk factors > Government policy > United States.
Carcinogens > Government policy > United States.
Cancer > Government policy.
Cancer > Research.
Cancer > Risk factors > Government policy.
Carcinogens > Government policy.
United States.
Table of Contents:
  • Introduction: We Just Don't Know It Yet; 1. Living in Prognosis: The Firing Squad of Statistics; 2. Poker Face: Gaming a Lifespan; 3. Cancer Butch: Trip Up the Fast Lane; 4. Lost Chance: Medical Mistakes; 5. The Mortality Effect: The Future in Cancer Trials; 6. Inconceivable: Where IVF Goes Bad; 7. Can Sir: What Screening Doesn't Do; 8. Fallout: Minuets in the Key of Fear; 9. Rubble: Bakelite Bodies; Conclusion: Shameless; Acknowledgments; Notes; Index.

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