An Army on the March
The Cart and the Horse
“A moon shot for cancer”
Part Three - “Will you turn me out if I can’t get better?”
“In God we trust. All others [must] have data”
“The smiling oncologist”
Knowing the Enemy
Halsted’s Ashes
Counting Cancer
Part Four - Prevention Is the Cure
“Coffins of black”
The Emperor’s Nylon Stockings
“A thief in the night”
“A statement of warning”
Photographic Insert
“Curiouser and curiouser”
“A spider’s web”
STAMP
The Map and the Parachute
Part Five - “A Distorted Version of Our Normal Selves”
“A unitary cause”
Under the Lamps of Viruses
“The hunting of the sarc”
The Wind in the Trees
A Risky Prediction
The Hallmarks of Cancer
Part Six - The Fruits of Long Endeavors
“No one had labored in vain”
New Drugs for Old Cancers
A City of Strings
Drugs, Bodies, and Proof
A Four-Minute Mile
The Red Queen’s Race
Thirteen Mountains
Atossa’s War
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Notes
Glossary
Selected Bibliography
Index
Acknowledgments
Author’s Note
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About the Publisher (#litres_trial_promo)
In 2010, about six hundred thousand Americans, and more than 7 million humans around the world, will die of cancer. In the United States, one in three women and one in two men will develop cancer during their lifetime. A quarter of all American deaths, and about 15 percent of all deaths worldwide, will be attributed to cancer. In some nations, cancer will surpass heart disease to become the most common cause of death.
Prologue (#ulink_fd6f8713-7ece-5d70-8187-baae32627b28)
Diseases desperate grown
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By desperate appliance are relieved,
Or not at all.