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The cancer code : a revolutionary new understanding of a medical mystery
Title:
The cancer code : a revolutionary new understanding of a medical mystery
Author:
Fung, Jason, author.
ISBN:
9780062894007
Personal Author:
Edition:
First edition.
Physical Description:
viii, 360 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm
Contents:
Trench Warfare -- The History of Cancer -- What is Cancer? -- Carcinogens -- Cancer goes Viral -- The Somatic Mutation Theory -- Cancer's Procrustean Bed -- The Denominator Problem -- A False Dawn -- The Seed and the Soil -- The Origins of Life and the Origins of Cancer -- Tumoral Evolution -- Cancerous Transformation -- Nutrition and Cancer -- Hyperinsulinemia -- Growth Factors -- Nutrient Sensors -- The Warburg Revival -- Invasion and Metastases -- The Strange Story of Cancer -- Prevention and Screening -- Dietary Determinants -- Immunotherapy.
Abstract:
"Author Dr. Jason Fung returns with a biography of cancer in which he offers a radical new paradigm for understanding cancer and issues a call to action for reducing risk moving forward"-- Provided by publisher.