The Understanding, Prevention and Control of Human Cancer

Robert Gilmore McKinnell

ISBN 10: 9004286799 / ISBN 13: 9789004286795

Published by Brill, NL, 2015

About this Item

The Understanding, Prevention and Control of Human Cancer is an account of how a married couple opened understanding of environmental carcinogenesis. Elizabeth Cavert and James A. Miller showed that enzymes of the human body activate and enable otherwise benign organic chemicals to combine with DNA in such a manner that cancer results. Their work is of particular note because cancer causes more loss of life-years than the sum of all other causes of death-and, as the President's (USA) Cancer Panel warned, environmental carcinogenesis is a form of cancer that has been previously "grossly underestimated". The Millers' cancer research led to tests that identify dangerous chemicals which in turn permits prevention and thus the control of human cancer.

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Bibliographic Details

• Title: The Understanding, Prevention and Control of Human Cancer
• Publisher: Brill, NL
• Publication Date: 2015
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 9004286799
• ISBN 13: 9789004286795
• Binding: Hardback
• Edition: Lam.
• Condition: New
• Dimensions: 16.51W x 1.27H x 24.77D centimeters 16.51 centimeters width by 1.27 centimeters height by 24.77 centimeters depth
• Weight: 462 grams

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Synopsis

The Understanding, Prevention and Control of Human Cancer is an account of how a married couple opened understanding of environmental carcinogenesis. Elizabeth Cavert and James A. Miller showed that enzymes of the human body activate and enable otherwise benign organic chemicals to combine with DNA in such a manner that cancer results. Their work is of particular note because cancer causes more loss of life-years than the sum of all other causes of death―and, as the President’s (USA) Cancer Panel warned, environmental carcinogenesis is a form of cancer that has been previously “grossly underestimated”. The Millers’ cancer research led to tests that identify dangerous chemicals which in turn permits prevention and thus the control of human cancer.

About the Author

Robert G. McKinnell, Ph.D. (1959), is a Morse/Alumni Professor Emeritus at the University of Minnesota. He has published scientific studies on animal cloning and herpesvirus cancer. He was a Royal Society of London Guest Research Fellow at the University of Oxford and he was awarded the Prince Hitachi Prize for basic cancer research by the Japanese Cancer Institute, Tokyo.