The Death of Cancer : After Fifty Years on the Front Lines of Medicine, a Pioneering Oncologist Reveals Why the War on Cancer Is Winnable - and How We Can Get There

For fifty years, Dr. Vincent T. DeVita Jr. has been one of oncology's leading figures, as comfortable on the lab beneh as at the bedside. The Death of Cancer is his profound and illuminating look at the science and the history of one or the world's most formidable diseases-from the false starts to the major breakthroughs, from the strong-willed oncologists who clashed with conservative administrators (and one another) to the courageous patients willing to test cutting-edge research to help these oncologists find potential treatments. And alongside the history and the science comes a call to arms-mortality rates may be declining, but America's cancer patients are still being short-changed by timid doctors, misguided national agendas, and, compromised bureaucracies. The Death of Cancer is an ambitious, vital book, about a life-and-death subject that touches us all. Book jacket.