Dr. Folkman's War: Angiogenesis and the Struggle to Defeat Cancer
by Robert Cooke
- Used
- Very Good
- Hardcover
- first
- Condition
- Very Good/Very Good
- ISBN 10
- 0375502440
- ISBN 13
- 9780375502446
- Seller
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Steubenville, Ohio, United States
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About This Item
Random House, February 2001. First Edition. Hardcover. Very Good/Very Good. Family run bookstore in Steubenville, Ohio. Book in Very Good condition. Binding tight. No marks noted in text. Some mild shelf wear to cover. +++ In 1961, twenty-eight-year-old Dr. Judah Folkman saw something while doing medical research in a United States navy lab that gave him the first glimmering of a wild, inspired hunch. What if cancerous tumors, in order to expand, needed to trigger the growth of new blood vessels to feed themselves? And if that was true, what if a way could be found to stop that growth? Could cancers be starved to death? Dr. Folkman had ample reason to be self confident — second in his class at Harvard Medical School, he was already considered one of the most promising doctors of his generation. But even he never guessed that his idea would eventually grow into a multibillion-dollar industry that is now racing through human trials with drugs that show unparalleled promise of being able to control cancer, as well as other deadly diseases... ++++++++++++++++++++++++Dr. Folkman's War brilliantly describes how high the odds are against success in medical research, how vicious the competition for grants, how entrenched the skepticism about any genuinely original thinking, how polluted by politics and commerce the process of getting medicine into patients' hands. But it also depicts with rare power how exalted a calling medicine can be and how for the rare few—the brilliant, the tireless, and the lucky — the results of success can be world-changing. Family-owned bookshop in Steubenville, Ohio: BookMarx Bookstore. Books shipped within 24 hours.
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- Bookseller
- Bookmarx Bookstore (US)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 122451
- Title
- Dr. Folkman's War: Angiogenesis and the Struggle to Defeat Cancer
- Author
- Robert Cooke
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used - Very Good
- Jacket Condition
- Very Good
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Edition
- First Edition
- ISBN 10
- 0375502440
- ISBN 13
- 9780375502446
- Publisher
- Random House
- Place of Publication
- Westminster, Maryland, U.s.a.
- Date Published
- February 2001
- Pages
- 366
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