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Curing Cancerphobia: How Risk, Fear, and Worry Mislead Us

By David Ropeik
Hardcover
$39.95
By David Ropeik
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Our fear of cancer causes great harm to individual health and to society.

The fear of cancer is understandable. But that fear is in some ways outdated, as it fails to account for the medical progress made against this family of diseases. In Curing Cancerphobia, David Ropeik reveals the fascinating historical and psychological roots of our fear of cancer and documents the dramatic health and financial harms caused when that fear exceeds the risk.

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