One in Three
Adam Wishart
In Wishart's personal, journalistic take on the history of cancer, he offers an encouraging story of science's progress in changing the outlook on cancer from a disease that one dies from to one that can be lived with.
Buy this book at AmazonAd- Publisher
- Grove Press
- Year
- 2008
- ISBN-13
- 9780802143488
- Genre
- Science & Technology
- Topics
- CancerHistory of medicineMedical research
Awards
- Royal Society Science Book PrizeShortlisted(2007)
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