The War on Cancer An Anatomy of Failure, A Blueprint for the Future /

• Main Author: Faguet, Guy B. (Author)
• Corporate Author: SpringerLink (Online service)
• Format: Electronic eBook
• Language: English
• Published: Dordrecht : Springer Netherlands, 2005.
• Subjects: Medicine.; Cancer research.; Human genetics.; Molecular biology.; Oncology.; Biomedicine.; Cancer Research.; Molecular Medicine.; Medicine/Public Health, general.; Human Genetics.

After reviewing the history of cancer and its impact on the population, Dr. Faguet exposes the antiquated notions that have driven cancer drug development, documents the stagnation in treatment outcomes despite major advances in cancer genomics and growing NCI budgets, and identifies the multiple fa...

Table of Contents:

• Cancer Statistics: Some Facts
• Assessing the magnitude of the problem
• The problem is growing, not going away
• What Is Cancer?
• Cancer through the ages
• Our current understanding
• How Is Cancer Treated?
• The cancer cell-kill paradigm and its corollaries
• Chemotherapy drugs
• Treatment outcomes: Dismal by any standard
• Why Does This System Persist?
• The role of the National Cancer Institute
• Publications: The facts and nothing but the facts?
• From the doctors' perspective
• From the patients' perspective
• Where Do We Go From Here?
• A vision for the future
• Shifting from the cell-kill paradigm to pharmacogenomics.