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Thomas H. Maugh
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Jean L. Marx
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Table of contents (16 chapters)
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Front Matter
Pages i-xiii
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Cancer Etiology
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- Thomas H. Maugh II, Jean L. Marx
Pages 3-7
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- Thomas H. Maugh II, Jean L. Marx
Pages 8-22
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- Thomas H. Maugh II, Jean L. Marx
Pages 23-36
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- Thomas H. Maugh II, Jean L. Marx
Pages 37-52
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- Thomas H. Maugh II, Jean L. Marx
Pages 53-66
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Cancer Biochemistry
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Pages 69-73
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Pages 74-87
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Pages 88-94
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Cancer Therapy
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Pages 97-99
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Pages 100-110
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- Thomas H. Maugh II, Jean L. Marx
Pages 111-129
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- Thomas H. Maugh II, Jean L. Marx
Pages 130-141
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- Thomas H. Maugh II, Jean L. Marx
Pages 142-148
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Specific Cancers
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Front Matter
Pages 149-149
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- Thomas H. Maugh II, Jean L. Marx
Pages 151-154
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- Thomas H. Maugh II, Jean L. Marx
Pages 155-166
About this book
There is little prospect of an immediate cure for cancer. The seeds of destruction seem to be sown within all of us, and there is no consensus about how these seeds develop into tumors or about what can be done to halt that development. Indeed, it is often difficult to find a consensus about any aspect of cancer research. The sharply conflicting views of investigators in different subdisciplines has been most aptly summarized by Charles Heidelberger of the McArdle Laboratory for Cancer Research, who argues that "the mechanism of cancer is a mirror into which each man looks and sees himself. " This is true despite the fact that large infusions of money and manpower now come to the aid of cancer research. In late 1974, Betty Ford and Margaretta (Happy) Rockefeller underwent surgery for breast cancer. The extensive publicity surrounding these mastectomies provoked a great deal of interest in the subject of cancer, particularly breast cancer. Newspaper and television stories associated with the operations gave their audiences some insight into the nature of cancer and cancer research, but they provided only a glimpse of the sweeping changes that the directions of cancer research have under gone in the last few years. In large part, these changes simply reflect the natural progression of research, but there is little question that that progression was sharply accelerated by the National Cancer Act of 1971, which initiated what politicians then termed a "crusade against cancer.
