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Ruzic, Neil; Ruzic, David - Racing to a Cure - 9780252073571 - V9780252073571
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Racing to a Cure

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Description for Racing to a Cure Paperback. Provides a scathing critique of the chemotherapy culture as well as of unscientific "alternative" therapies and endorses molecularly based technologies, making it an illuminating and necessary read for anyone interested in cancer research, especially patients and their families and physicians. Num Pages: 456 pages, 0. BIC Classification: BG; MJCL. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 5817 x 3887 x 27. Weight in Grams: 621.
Racing to a Cure is not a cancer memoir. It is a cancer cure memoir. In 1998 Neil Ruzic was diagnosed with mantle-cell lymphoma, the deadliest cancer of the lymph system, whose spread is reaching epidemic levels in the U.S. and Europe. Instead of following recommended courses of chemotherapy and radiation, he took control of his treatment by investigating cures being developed in the nation's cancer-research laboratories.

Although chemotherapy harms the immune system and is increasingly demonstrated to be an ineffective long-term cure for the vast majority of cancers, it remains the standard treatment for most cancer patients. Ruzic, ... Read more

Ruzic went on the offensive: visiting scores of laboratories, gathering information, talking to researchers, and effectively becoming his own patient-care advocate. This book presents his findings. A scathing critique of the chemotherapy culture as well as unscientific "alternative" therapies, the book endorses state-of-the-art molecularly based technologies, making it an illuminating and necessary read for anyone interested in cancer research, especially patients and their families and physicians.

Neil Ruzic was expected to die within two years of his initial diagnosis. Five years later he has been declared cancer-free and considers himself cured.

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Product Details

Format
Paperback
Publication date
2006
Publisher
University of Illinois Press United States
Number of pages
456
Condition
New
Number of Pages
456
Place of Publication
Baltimore, United States
ISBN
9780252073571
SKU
V9780252073571
Shipping Time
Usually ships in 15 to 20 working days
Ref
99-15

About Ruzic, Neil; Ruzic, David
Neil Ruzic (1930-2004) was the founder and former publisher of several worldwide scientific magazines, including Industrial Research and Oceanology International. He was the author of 250 articles and 11 books, including Where the Winds Sleep and The Shallow Sea.

Reviews for Racing to a Cure
"In September 1998 publisher and scientific journalist Ruzic was diagnosed with mantle-cell lymphoma. . . . He faced a prognosticated further life-span of 18 months, and that would be made insufferable by side effects from the prescribed chemotherapy. . . . His scientific mind was certain that there were other, perhaps more effective and certainly less deadly treatment options, if ... Read more

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