To Dance with the Devil - Hardcover

Stabiner, K.

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 0385312849 ISBN 13: 9780385312844

Verlag: Bantam Doubleday Dell Publishing Group, 1997

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Book by Stabiner Karen

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An investigative journalist offers an in-depth report on the current research, politics, and economics behind breast cancer, from the heights of the nation's capital to the labs of genetic researchers to the private dramas of individual patients. Tour.

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story of a killer and the people fighting to stop it.

Breast cancer takes the life of an American woman every twelve minutes.  There is no sure cure for the disease, no known way to prevent it, and no means of predicting whom it will strike next.  A community of dogged adversaries stands in opposition to it: mavericks and bureaucrats, brilliant innovators and everyday heroes.  Often at passionate odds in temper and technique, they are
united in their resolve against an elusive, implacable enemy.  To Dance with the Devil is an unprecedented behind-the-scenes account from the war on one of medicine's most pernicious foes.

The product of over three years of research, scores of interviews with the nation's top doctors, policymakers, researchers, and activists, and in-depth reporting on the patients and clinicians who invited the author into their lives, To Dance with the Devil is at once an up-to-the-minute r

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• Verlag: Bantam Doubleday Dell Publishing Group
• Erscheinungsdatum: 1997
• ISBN 10: 0385312849
• ISBN 13: 9780385312844
• Einband: Tapa dura
• Anzahl der Seiten: 518