The Understanding, Prevention and Control of Human Cancer: The Historic Work and Lives of Elizabeth Cavert Miller and James A. Miller (History of Science and Medicine Library, Band 49) - Hardcover

McKinnell, Robert Gilmore

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 9004286799 ISBN 13: 9789004286795

Verlag: Koninklijke Brill BV, 2015

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The Understanding, Prevention and Control of Human Cancer is an account of how a married couple opened understanding of environmental carcinogenesis. Elizabeth Cavert and James A. Miller showed that enzymes of the human body activate and enable otherwise benign organic chemicals to combine with DNA in such a manner that cancer results. Their work is of particular note because cancer causes more loss of life-years than the sum of all other causes of death--and, as the President's (USA) Cancer Panel warned, environmental carcinogenesis is a form of cancer that has been previously "grossly underestimated". The Millers' cancer research led to tests that identify dangerous chemicals which in turn permits prevention and thus the control of human cancer.

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Robert G. McKinnell, Ph.D. (1959), is a Morse/Alumni Professor Emeritus at the University of Minnesota. He has published scientific studies on animal cloning and herpesvirus cancer. He was a Royal Society of London Guest Research Fellow at the University of Oxford and he was awarded the Prince Hitachi Prize for basic cancer research by the Japanese Cancer Institute, Tokyo.

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• Verlag: Koninklijke Brill BV
• Erscheinungsdatum: 2015
• Sprache: Englisch
• ISBN 10: 9004286799
• ISBN 13: 9789004286795
• Einband: Gebundene Ausgabe
• Anzahl der Seiten: 214
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