Abstract

This book is a straightforward, realistic discussion of present status of cancer —the disease and cure. The book's theme is cancer drugs—chemistry's weapon of hope against cancer. Actually, basic plea is recorded in introduction, all Americans who die of cancer today, deaths of one-fourth might have been avoided had proper treatment been started in time. New drugs that let patient live with his disease are cited as evidence that chemicals are vital to welfare of 265,000 Americans slated to die of cancer this year. Of these, it is claimed that 85,000 could yet be cured, if earlier and better treatment could be started. Chemist Battista delves superficially into basic nature and chemistry of normal and cancerous cells, deftly inciting reader's interest in role of nucleic acid, the closest chemical to mysterious spark of life. He offers a

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