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Radiotherapy, Surgery, and Immunotherapy
Frederick . Ed(S): Becker
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Paperback. Editor(s): Becker, Frederick. Series: Cancer, a Compresensive Treatise. Num Pages: 544 pages, 31 black & white illustrations, biography. BIC Classification: MJCL. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 254 x 178 x 29. Weight in Grams: 1060.
The history of the development of cancer therapy has been marked by a recurring pattern, one of initially exciting and encouraging results as new methods were introduced, followed by dismaying failures. The extremity of the disease and its high mortality have dictated that each means of damaging tumor cells would be rapidly explored and exploited as a mode of therapy, long before the correspond ing theory and technique were completely understood and perfected. Thus radiation was used as an antitumor agent almost immediately following recogni tion of its cytodestructive capability. Equally constant, following the rapid utilization of new therapeutic methods, ... Read more
The history of the development of cancer therapy has been marked by a recurring pattern, one of initially exciting and encouraging results as new methods were introduced, followed by dismaying failures. The extremity of the disease and its high mortality have dictated that each means of damaging tumor cells would be rapidly explored and exploited as a mode of therapy, long before the correspond ing theory and technique were completely understood and perfected. Thus radiation was used as an antitumor agent almost immediately following recogni tion of its cytodestructive capability. Equally constant, following the rapid utilization of new therapeutic methods, ... Read more
Product Details
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2012
Publisher
Springer-Verlag New York Inc. United States
Number of pages
544
Condition
New
Series
Cancer, a Compresensive Treatise
Number of Pages
544
Place of Publication
New York, NY, United States
ISBN
9781468427417
SKU
V9781468427417
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