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The Secret History of the War on Cancer Book

Even before its official launch the War on Cancer was fighting many of the wrong battles with the wrong weapons and the wrong leaders. This work shows how the leadership acted to prevent research on prevention from ever being done - or once done from ever gaining widespread circulation or affecting either medical practice or government policy.Read More

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  • Blackwell

    For much of its history, the cancer war has been fighting the wrong battles, with the wrong weapons, against the wrong enemies. The campaign has targeted the disease and left off the table the things that cause it - tobacco, alcohol...

  • Product Description

    From the National Book Award finalist, author of When Smoke Ran Like Water, a searing, haunting and deeply personal account of the War on Cancer.

    The War on Cancer set out to find, treat, and cure a disease. Left untouched were many of the things known to cause cancer, including tobacco, the workplace, radiation, or the global environment. Proof of how the world in which we live and work affects whether we get cancer was either overlooked or suppressed.

    This has been no accident.

    The War on Cancer was run by leaders of industries that made cancer-causing products, and sometimes also profited from drugs and technologies for finding and treating the disease. Filled with compelling personalities and never-before-revealed information, The Secret History of the War on Cancer shows how we began fighting the wrong war, with the wrong weapons, against the wrong enemies--a legacy that persists to this day.

    This is the gripping story of a major public health effort diverted and distorted for private gain.

    A portion of the profits from this book will go to support research on cancer prevention.

  • 0465015662
  • 9780465015665
  • Devra Davis
  • 1 November 2007
  • Basic Books
  • Hardcover (Book)
  • 528
  • 1
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