A World Without Cancer

Cuomo, Margaret I.

ISBN 10 : 1470835789 ISBN 13 : 9781470835781

Editeur : Blackstone Pub, 2012

A propos du livre

Présentation de l'éditeur

Dr. Cuomo, a prestigious diagnostic radiologist, and sister of the governor of NY, marshals 30 years of medical evidence to argue that the reason Americans are still dying of cancer - and why incidents of new cancers are actually on the rise - is because of a catastrophically broken system that puts corporate profit and personal ambition far, far ahead of the goal of curing and preventing cancer. Cancer this year will kill twice as many Americans as were killed in all of WWII and yet we continue to be told that the billions we spend on cancer research can do no better than to keep people living a little while longer, and while the medical community continues to celebrate more and more grotesquely aggressive surgeries on late-stage patients. Three trends are responsible for this chronic failure to cure cancer: doctors currently win grant money to study very narrow aspects of cancer (which results in their growing their personal reputations) but are never incentivized to work collaboratively with other doctors nationally or globally to achieve the major breakthroughs that collaboration would provide; pharma companies continue to soak up billions in profit from drugs that treat sick patients instead of on breakthroughs that would cure them - and thereby dry up their cancer drug pipeline; and the government has been profoundly remiss in placing no effort whatsoever behind serious prevention of cancer messaging or research, even as more and more independent research piles up proving that cancer can indeed be avoided in the first place.

Présentation de l'éditeur

This year, nearly 1.6 million new cases of cancer will be diagnosed and more than 1,500 people will die per day. We ve been asked to accept the disappointing strategy to manage cancer as a chronic disease. We ve allowed pharmaceutical companies to position cancer drugs that extend life by just weeks and may cost $100,000 for a single course of treatment as breakthroughs. Why have we been able to cure and prevent other killer diseases but not most cancers? Where is the bold government leadership that will transform our system from treatment to prevention? Have we forgotten the mission of the National Cancer Act of 1971, to conquer cancer. Through an analysis of over 40 years of medical evidence and interviews with cancer doctors, researchers, drug company executives, and health policy advisors, Dr. Cuomo reveals frank and intriguing answers to these questions. She shows us how all cancer stakeholders the pharmaceutical industry, government, physicians, and concerned Americans can change the way we view and fight cancer in this country

Détails de l'édition

• Éditeur: Blackstone Pub
• Date d'édition: 2012
• Langue: anglais
• ISBN 10: 1470835789
• ISBN 13: 9781470835781
• Reliure: MP3 CD
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