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The cancer handbook : a guide for the non-specialist / Darrell E. Ward.
- Title
- The cancer handbook : a guide for the non-specialist / Darrell E. Ward.
- Author
- Ward, Darrell E., 1947-
- Publication
- Columbus : Ohio State University Press, c1995.
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| Status | Format | Access | Call Number | Item Location |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Text | Request in advance | RC263 .W33 1995 | Off-site |
Details
- Description
- xii, 130 p. : ill.; 23 cm.
- Uniform Title
- Reporting on cancer
- Alternative Title
- Reporting on cancer
- Subjects
- Genre/Form
- Popular Work.
- Terminology.
- Note
- First published under title: Reporting on cancer, 1994.
- Includes index.
- Contents
- Introduction - What Is Cancer? -- Animal Models and Cancer Research -- Cancer Information -- Carcinogenesis -- Causes of Cancer -- The Cell -- Chemotherapy for Cancer -- Clinical Trials and Drug Development -- Clinical Trials Cooperative Groups -- "Curing" Cancer -- Diagnosis of Cancer -- Diet and Cancer -- DNA -- Drug Resistance and Cancer -- Ethnicity and Cancer -- Gene Control/Gene Regulation -- Genes, Mutations, and Chromosomes -- Heredity and Cancer -- Hormones and Cancer -- Hospice and Cancer -- Identifying Carcinogens -- Immunotherapy and Cancer Vaccines -- Metastasis -- Oncogenes -- Pain Control and Cancer -- Pollution of the Environment and Cancer -- Prevention of Cancer -- Proteins and Protein Synthesis -- Risk and Cancer -- Tobacco and Cancer -- Treatment of Cancer -- Tumor Markers, Serum -- Tumor Staging and Grading -- Tumor Suppressor Genes -- Ultraviolet Light, Ozone, Tanning Beds, and Cancer -- Viruses and Cancer.
- ISBN
- 0814206751 (pbk. : alk. paper)
- LCCN
- 95008318
- Owning Institutions
- Columbia University Libraries