| Experimental Leukemia and Mammary Cancer: Induction, Prevention, Cure Contributor(s): Huggins, Charles Brenton (Author) |
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ISBN: 0226358607 ISBN-13: 9780226358604 Publisher: University of Chicago Press OUR PRICE: $48.51 Product Type: Hardcover Published: April 1979 Annotation: Charles Brenton Huggins won the Nobel prize in 1966 for his extensive work in cancer research. He has spent fifty years at the laboratory bench exploring the nature of this disease in an attempt to understand and control it. In this volume, based almost exclusively on experiments conducted over the past twenty years at the University of Chicago, is both the record of Huggins's own research and, in Huggins's words, "a do-it-yourself guide for cancer research workers." Written simply and clearly so that the experiments can be easily reproduced, the book presents Huggins's experiments in the induction of breast cancer and leukemia in rodents. It also describes the methods he discovered to prevent cancer and to cure many of the cancers he has been able to induce. Although most of the material concerns breast cancer and leukemia, research on other kinds of tumors is also described. |
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| BISAC Categories: - Medical | Hematology |
| Dewey: 616.155 |
| LCCN: 78025790 |
| Physical Information: 0.76" H x 7.04" W x 9.79" (1.10 lbs) 238 pages |
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| Publisher Description: Charles Brenton Huggins won the Nobel prize in 1966 for his extensive work in cancer research. He has spent fifty years at the laboratory bench exploring the nature of this disease in an attempt to understand and control it. In this volume, based almost exclusively on experiments conducted over the past twenty years at the University of Chicago, is both the record of Huggins's own research and, in Huggins's words, a do-it-yourself guide for cancer research workers. Written simply and clearly so that the experiments can be easily reproduced, the book presents Huggins's experiments in the induction of breast cancer and leukemia in rodents. It also describes the methods he discovered to prevent cancer and to cure many of the cancers he has been able to induce. Although most of the material concerns breast cancer and leukemia, research on other kinds of tumors is also described. |
Contributor Bio(s): Huggins, Charles Brenton: - Charles Brenton Huggins (1901-1997) was William B. Ogden Distinguished Service Professor Emeritus of Surgery at the University of Chicago Medical Center, where he specialized in prostate and breast cancer. He was awarded the 1966 Nobel Prize for Physiology or Medicine for his discovery that hormones could be used to control the spread of some cancers. Huggins' groundbreaking work helped usher in a new era of rational chemotherapy. |
