Table of Contents
Preface ix
Chapter 1 Cracking Medicine's Oldest Mystery 1
Chapter 2 Deciphering the Inner Workings of the Cell 21
Chapter 3 The First Look Deep Inside the Cancer Cell 29
Chapter 4 Bringing the New Sciences to an Old School 35
Chapter 5 The Moon Shot 53
Chapter 6 Teaching Cancer Cells to Die 69
Chapter 7 The Politics of Cancer Research 79
Chapter 8 Memorial Sloan-Kettering Finds Its Agent of Change 89
Chapter 9 Getting Aggressive in the War on Cancer 103
Chapter 10 A Perfect Cure-for a Single Cancer Patient 121
Chapter 11 Changing Cancer Care from Within 135
Chapter 12 Enlisting a Major New Ally- the Cancer Patient 149
Chapter 13 Breast Cancer Gets Its Own Home 165
Chapter 14 Learning to Love Acid 175
Chapter 15 The Payoff 189
Chapter 16 Cancer Screening as a Way of Life 203
Chapter 17 The Next Leap 221
Acknowledgments 229
Index 231