The war on cancer an anatomy of failure, a blueprint for the future /

After reviewing the history of cancer and its impact on the population, Dr. Faguet exposes the antiquated notions that have driven cancer drug development, documents the stagnation in treatment outcomes despite major advances in cancer genomics and growing NCI budgets, and identifies the multiple fa...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Faguet, Guy B.
Corporate Author: SpringerLink (Online service)
Format: eBook
Language:English
Published: Dordrecht : Springer, ©2005.
Dordrecht : [2005]
Physical Description:
1 online resource (xv, 227 pages) : illustrations, portraits.
Subjects:
Cancer -- United States.
Online Access:SpringerLink - Click here for access
Contents:
  • Assessing the magnitude of the problem
  • The problem is growing, not going away
  • Cancer through the ages
  • Our current understanding
  • The cancer cell-kill paradigm and its corollaries
  • Chemotherapy drugs
  • Treatment outcomes: dismal by any standard
  • The role of the National Cancer Institute
  • Publications; the facts and nothing but the facts?
  • From the doctors' perspective
  • From the patients' perspective
  • A vision for the future
  • Shifting from the cell-kill paradigm to pharmacogenomics
  • Conclusions
  • Glossary. =538 \\$aMode of access: World Wide Web.

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