Overview

The enormous recent progress in fighting cancer, and the science behind it, is revealed fully for the first time in this book. The disease affects one in three over a lifetime but today more and more people are surviving as a result of the extraordinary and little known advances of science and medicine. Using scientific evidence from world cancer experts, Lauren Pecorino helps us understand the biology of cancer, the recent trends in cancer progress, and the rationale behind new cancer treatments. With recommendations about lifestyle choices that can help reduce some of the risks of getting cancer, Pecorino looks to the future in our battle with this disease.

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I recommend this book to everyone working in health care and all those wanting to know more about cancer and finding a cure. A highly readable account of cancer and its successful control... fully abreast of the very latest thinking about its management. The Biologist

<br> Written in an absorbing style, this book is an important evidence-based general resource for a wide audience. Summing Up: Highly Recommended. All levels/libraries. --CHOICE<p><br>

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Lauren Pecorino is currently a principal lecturer at the University of Grenwich. She has presented guest lectures in Rome and Palermo, Italy; Istanbul, Turkey; Cairo, Egypt and the USA. She is the author of an international university textbook on the molecular biology of cancer and cancer therapeutics, published by Oxford University Press.

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