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The Truth in Small Doses: Why We're Losing the War on Cancer - And How to Win It Hardcover - 2013 - 1st Edition
by Clifton Leaf
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A provocative, eye-opening history of the war on cancer, The Truth in Small Doses asks why we are losing this essential fight and charts a path forward.
OVER THE PAST HALF CENTURY, deaths from heart disease, stroke, and so many other killers have fallen dramatically. But cancer continues to kill with abandon. In 2013, despite a four-decade âÈêwarâÈë against the disease that has cost hundreds of billions of dollars, more than 1.6 million Americans will be diagnosed with cancer and nearly six hundred thousand will die from it.
A decade ago, Clifton Leaf, a celebrated journalist and a cancer survivor himself, began to investigate why we had made such limited progress fighting this terrifying disease. The result is a gripping narrative that reveals why the publicâÈçs immense investment in research has been badly misspent, why scientists seldom collaborate and share their data, why new drugs are so expensive yet routinely fail, and why our best hope for progressâÈ'brilliant young scientistsâÈ' are now abandoning the search for a cure. The Truth in Small Doses is that rare tale that will both outrage readers and inspire conversation and change.
OVER THE PAST HALF CENTURY, deaths from heart disease, stroke, and so many other killers have fallen dramatically. But cancer continues to kill with abandon. In 2013, despite a four-decade âÈêwarâÈë against the disease that has cost hundreds of billions of dollars, more than 1.6 million Americans will be diagnosed with cancer and nearly six hundred thousand will die from it.
A decade ago, Clifton Leaf, a celebrated journalist and a cancer survivor himself, began to investigate why we had made such limited progress fighting this terrifying disease. The result is a gripping narrative that reveals why the publicâÈçs immense investment in research has been badly misspent, why scientists seldom collaborate and share their data, why new drugs are so expensive yet routinely fail, and why our best hope for progressâÈ'brilliant young scientistsâÈ' are now abandoning the search for a cure. The Truth in Small Doses is that rare tale that will both outrage readers and inspire conversation and change.
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- Title The Truth in Small Doses: Why We're Losing the War on Cancer - And How to Win It
- Author Clifton Leaf
- Binding Hardcover
- Edition number 1st
- Edition 1
- Pages 499
- Volumes 1
- Language ENG
- Publisher Simon & Schuster, NY
- Date 2013-07-16
- Illustrated Yes
- ISBN 9781476739984 / 1476739986
- Weight 1.45 lbs (0.66 kg)
- Dimensions 9.1 x 6 x 1.6 in (23.11 x 15.24 x 4.06 cm)
- Library of Congress subjects History, 20th Century, Neoplasms - drug therapy
- Library of Congress Catalog Number 2013005817
- Dewey Decimal Code 616.994
Media reviews
""Why have we made so little progress in the war on cancer?" Clifton Leaf asked Fortune in 2004. His groundbreaking story went on to describe the failures of researchers and drugmakers alike, and a system so focused on incremental improvements in the treatment of the disease that it could not arrange itself to tackle the roots of a persistent (and still growing) problem. For a decade Leaf has followed the story, and though we are no closer to âÈæcuringâÈç cancer, we can now imagineâÈ'thanks to his lucid and fascinating workâÈ'what that solution might look like. In LeafâÈçs brilliant new book, he reframes the challenge as one of engineering, not science. As Leaf writes, "Science determines the limits of the possible. Engineering lets us reach them.""
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