The human and political sides of this decades-long odyssey are as intriguing and essential as understanding the essence of cancer itself. Consequently, The Outsider’ s Advantage is much more than The Chromosomal Imbalance Theory of Cancer the author wrote for cancer researchers. Presented are the combined results of more than a century of the on-again, off-again efforts to understand what cancer really is, how it comes about, and what to do about it. The goal is to demystify the whole process and make it accessible to all. Along the way you’ ll learn about the personal and professional costs of confronting dogma: lost friendships, relentless personal attacks, and attempts at the highest levels of government to punish and silence dissent. The pharmaceutical industry’ s Sisyphean pursuit of anti-cancer drugs is almost exclusively focused on genes thought to cause cancer. However, there are no culprit genes and proteins responsible for cancer! By the late 19th Century, cancer cells were known to have massively unbalanced chromosomes. Aneuploidy is the fancy word for unbalanced chromosomes. For nearly a century, there was no definite way to settle the question of whether aneup

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David Rasnick received his PhD in chemistry from Georgia Tech in 1978. He worked 20 years in pharmaceutical/biotech industry and founded 4 biotech companies. He developed inhibitors against the enzymes responsible for the tissue destruction caused by cancer, emphysema, and arthritis. The same class of inhibitors are powerful anti-parasitic agents. Dave left the pharmaceutical-biotech industry in 1996 and joined UC Berkeley Professor Peter Duesberg’ s fight against the blatantly wrong dogma that HIV causes AIDS. Dave is former President of Rethinking AIDS: the Group for the Scientific Reapp

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