Cancer, 2nd Edition
A Very Short Introduction
$21.41
- Paperback
176 pages
- Release Date
16 April 2025
Summary
In 1961 John F. Kennedy pledged to put a man on the moon by the end of the decade. Nine years later, Neil Armstrong and Buzz Aldrin walked on the moon. Ten years later, Richard Nixon echoed this pledge by declaring a ‘war’ on cancer. More than 50 years later, however, cancer remains one of the largest causes of death worldwide, with around 1 in 3 developing the disease. Curing cancer is not ‘rocket science’, but the question is, why has cancer proved to be harder to tackle than the moon landi…
Book Details
| ISBN-13: | 9780198848912 |
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| ISBN-10: | 0198848919 |
| Author: | Nick James |
| Publisher: | Oxford University Press |
| Imprint: | Oxford University Press |
| Format: | Paperback |
| Number of Pages: | 176 |
| Edition: | 2nd |
| Release Date: | 16 April 2025 |
| Weight: | 150g |
| Dimensions: | 10mm x 112mm x 175mm |
| Series: | Very Short Introductions |
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Nick James
Professor James is Professor and Deputy Dean at The Institute of Cancer Research and The Royal Marsden Hospital. He is a world leading researcher on advanced prostate and bladder cancer. He recently chaired a Commission on Prostate Cancer for The Lancet. James co-founded one of the oldest patient information websites in 1994. He set up the Man Van project, aimed at improving outcomes in men at high risk of late diagnosis of prostate cancer.
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