Cancer / Panno, Joseph

Presents the past, present, and future of cancer research in a readable and comprehensive format. Explores the successes and failures of treatments using high doses of chemo- or radiation therapy; the plight of cancer survivors; recent advances in the use of light-activated compounds, monoclonal antibodies, gene therapy, and stem cells, which have provided powerful methods for dealing with this disease; as well as the extensive research that has been done to determine the causes of different types of cancer.

Discusses common types of cancer, cancer cells, oncogenesis, cancer progression, therapies, cancer around the world, and clinical trials, and presents overviews of related topics, including eukaryote cells, recombinant DNA, gene therapy, matching tissues, and the Human Genome Project.