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| Author's Note | |
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| Jurassic Cancer | |
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| A strange fossil from Colorado | |
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| Pathology of dinosaur bones | |
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| Monster tumors | |
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| The epidemiology of extinction | |
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| Cancer in ancient beasts | |
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| Tumors in sunflowers | |
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| Fish, reptiles, and amphibians | |
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| "Why Don't All Whales Have Cancer?" | |
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| A curious law of nature | |
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| Contemplating the odds | |
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| Nancy's Story | |
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| Food pyramidology | |
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| Pascal�s wager | |
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| Folates, antioxidants, and Finnish smokers | |
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| Fruits, vegetables, and giant steaks | |
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| Carcinogenic estrogen | |
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| The real risks of cigarettes | |
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| Emanations from the earth | |
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| Cancer clusters | |
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| A worrisome lump | |
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| Nancy�s cancer | |
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| The Consolations of Anthropology | |
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| In the boneyards of Kenya | |
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| Face-to-face with Kanam man | |
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| Palaeo-Oncology | |
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| Hippocrates and the crabs | |
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| The wild beast of cancer | |
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| Metastasis in a Scythian king | |
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| Skeletons and mummies | |
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| Visions of an ancient paradise | |
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| Counting up the dead | |
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| Invasion of the Body Snatchers | |
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| "Large and beautifully pellucid cells" | |
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| Morbid juices | |
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| Seeds and soil | |
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| The mysteries of metastasis | |
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| A horrifying precision | |
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| The ebb and flow of lymph | |
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| The surgeon's diagnosis | |
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| Weeds from outer space | |
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| Information Sickness | |
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| Man-made mutations | |
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| Funny-looking chromosomes | |
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| "A new kind of cell" | |
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| Matter that comes alive | |
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| The Radium Girls | |
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| Coal tar and tumors | |
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| Viral invaders | |
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| Oncogenes and tumor suppressors | |
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| Cellular suicide | |
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| Intimations of immortality | |
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| A conspiracy of cells | |
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| "How Heart Cells Embrace Their Fate" | |
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| Embryos and tumors | |
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| Snail, slug, and twist | |
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| Sonic hedgehog | |
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| the Pok�mon gene | |
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| Cyclopean sheep | |
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| Holoprosencephaly | |
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| 1 + 1=3 | |
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| Prayers of an agnostic | |
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| An endless day at the hospital | |
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| Where Cancer Really Comes From | |
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| The surprising aftermath of Love Canal | |
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| What "environment" really means | |
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| "The Causes of Cancer" | |
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| An environmental turncoat | |
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| The carcinogens in coffee | |
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| Mitogenesis and mutagenesis | |
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| Making sense of the cancer statistics | |
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| A maverick presidential report | |
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| chapter s "Adriamycin and Posole for Christmas Eve" | |
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| Cancer cells and magnets | |
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| The penicillin of cancer | |
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| A rare kind of malignancy | |
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| Disheartening statistics | |
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| "The Median Isn't the Message" | |
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| Flying farolitos | |
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| A visit to MD Anderson | |
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| Rothko's brooding chapel | |
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| Deeper into the Cancer Cell | |
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| A physics of cancer | |
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| Epigenetic software | |
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| The stem cell conundrum | |
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| An enormous meeting in Orlando | |
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| Espresso and angiogenesis | |
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| The news from Oz | |
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| Communing with the microbiome | |
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| Beyond the double helix | |
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| Dancing at the Cancer Ball | |
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| The Metabolic Mess | |
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| Chimney sweeps and nuns | |
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| A "mysterious sympathy" | |
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| The case of the missing carcinogens | |
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| The rise and fall of vegetables | |
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| A mammoth investigation | |
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| The insulin-obesity connection | |
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| "Wounds that do not heal" | |
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| A hundred pounds of sugar | |
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| Skewing the energy equation | |
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| Gambling with Radiation | |
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| Flunking the radon test | |
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| A ubiquitous carcinogen | |
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| Down in the uranium mines | |
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| Tourism at Chernobyl | |
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| Hiroshima and Nagasaki | |
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| Exhuming Curie's grave | |
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| A pocketful of radium | |
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| Robot oncologists | |
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| Relay for Life | |
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| The Immortal Demon | |
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| A flight to Boston | |
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| Stand Up to Cancer | |
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| A tale of two cousins | |
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| The return of the hedgehog | |
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| Where weird drug names come from | |
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| Waiting for super trastuzumab | |
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| Orphaned cancers | |
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| Biological game theory | |
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| Contagious cancer | |
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| Beware the Echthroi | |
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| On Microwave Mountain | |
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| Cell phones and brain waves | |
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| Is cancer here "on purpose"? | |
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| Physicists and oncologists | |
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| Snapshots of a proteome | |
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| Five crazy ideas | |
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| Mitochondria and farandolae | |
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| Maxwell's triumphant demon | |
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| Epilogue Joe's Cancer | |
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| Notes | |
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| Index | |