The War on Cancer

I.Cancer Statistics: Some Facts
1. Assessing the magnitude of the problem
2. The problem is growing, not going away
II.What Is Cancer?
3. Cancer through the ages
4. Our current understanding
III.How Is Cancer Treated?
5. The cancer cell-kill paradigm and its corollaries
6. Chemotherapy drugs
7. Treatment outcomes: Dismal by any standard
IV.Why Does This System Persist?
8. The role of the National Cancer Institute
9. Publications: The facts and nothing but the facts?
10. From the doctors' perspective
11. From the patients' perspective
V.Where Do We Go From Here?
12. A vision for the future
13. Shifting from the cell-kill paradigm to pharmacogenomics

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Keywords: TECHNOLOGY & ENGINEERING / Biomedical TEC059000