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A World Without Cancer : : the Making of a new Cure and the Real Promise of Prevention

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Honoring a commitment -- Understanding cancer -- The promise and limits of cancer screening -- Cut, poison, and burn: a look at today's treatment options -- What the market will bear -- Paying more, settling for less -- Cancer's collateral damage -- Shifting the research approach -- The promise of prevention -- Cancer-proofing the environment -- Ending the scourge of tobacco -- Fighting cancer with nutrition and physical activity -- The power of vitamin D -- Can pills prevent cancer? -- On the cutting edge of science -- Final word: from imagination to transformation.
A report on how politics, ambition, and profits are obstructing advances in the war on cancer outlines a call for change that explains how most funding is being used to promote companies and individuals at the expense of cancer prevention programs.

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PUBLISHED
[New York] : Distributed to the trade by Macmillan, c2012.
Year Published: 2012
Description: xix, 284 p. ; 24 cm.
Language: English
Format: Book

ISBN/STANDARD NUMBER
9781609618858
1609618858

SUBJECTS
Cancer -- Prevention.
Medicine, Preventive.
Cancer -- Nutritional aspects.
Physical fitness.