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The Death of Cancer : After Fifty Years on the Front Lines of Medicine, a Pioneering Oncologist Reveals Why the War on Cancer Is Winnable--and How We Can Get There by Vincent T. DeVita, Jr., M.D., Elizabeth DeVita-Raeburn is a science book available to read on EtoBox.
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The True Story Of The War On Cancer From One Of Its Generals. In The Death Of Cancer, Dr. Vincent T. Devita Jr.--former Director Of The National Cancer Institute, Former Physician-in-chief At Memorial Sloan Kettering, Director Of The Yale Cancer Center, Former President Of The American Cancer Society, And Developer Of The First Successful Chemotherapy Treatment For Hodgkin's Lymphoma, Which First Demonstrated That Advanced Cancers Of A Major Organ System In Adults Could Be Cured By Chemotherapy--provides A Personal History Of One Of The Greatest Science Stories Of Our Time, Covering Our Fight Against Cancer From A Man Who's Seen It All. But This Is More Than A History; It's Also A Work Of Advocacy. Despite Declining Mortality Rates, Devita Argues, America's Cancer Patients Are Being Shortchanged By Timid Doctors, Misguided National Agendas, And Compromised Bureaucracies. He Gives Readers An Eye-opening Look At The Strengths And Weaknesses Of America's Most Prestigious Cancer Centers, Showing How Patients Can Use This Information To Their Advantage. Though We're Rapidly Approaching Total Victory Over Cancer, He Contends, We Need To Do More To Synthesize Our Progress And Help Doctors
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It is typically read by self-directed learners exploring a subject in depth.
Common subject areas: history, science, philosophy, social sciences.
- Author
- Vincent T. DeVita, Jr., M.D., Elizabeth DeVita-Raeburn
- Publisher
- Sarah Crichton Books/Farrar, Straus and Giroux
- Published
- 2015
- Language
- EN
- ISBN
- 9780374135607
- Category
- science
- Subjects
- Medical, Fiction, Memoir
- Rating
- 4.22 / 5 (362 ratings)
- Updated
- 2026-03-13