On the Cancer Frontier: One Man, One Disease, and a Medical Revolution by James Sterngold, Paul Marks

On the Cancer Frontier: One Man, One Disease, and a Medical Revolution

James Sterngold, Paul Marks

251 pages missing pub info (editions)

nonfiction health history emotional hopeful informative fast-paced
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In 1950, a diagnosis of cancer was all but a death sentence. Mortality rates only got worse, and as late as 1986, an article in the New England Journal of Medicine lamented: "We are losing the war against cancer." Cancer is one of humankind's olde...

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