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The Secret History of the War on Cancer
Devra Davis
Basic Books
October 2007
On Sale: October 1, 2007
304 pages ISBN: 0465015662 EAN: 9780465015665 Hardcover
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Non-Fiction
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 tosupport
research on cancer prevention.
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