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OverviewThe 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. Full Product DetailsAuthor: Robert Gilmore McKinnellPublisher: Brill Imprint: Brill Volume: 49 Dimensions: Width: 15.50cm , Height: 1.80cm , Length: 23.50cm Weight: 0.462kg ISBN: 9789004286795ISBN 10: 9004286799 Pages: 196 Publication Date: 06 November 2015 Audience: Professional and scholarly , Professional & Vocational Format: Hardback Publisher's Status: Active Availability: In stock  We have confirmation that this item is in stock with the supplier. It will be ordered in for you and dispatched immediately. Table of Contents1. Cancer is the Most Important Disease of the 21st Century: A Reality Most Fail to Comprehend 2. Cancer for Novices: An Introduction 3. The Millers and Chemical Carcinogenesis 4. Serendipity: How the Millers Unintentionally Revolutionized Biology 5. The Family Origins of Elizabeth Cavert Miller: New York, Ireland and Scotland 6. More About Elizabeth 7. James Alexander Miller-How He Became the Other Strand of the Miller Double Helix 8. Elizabeth and James, Beyond the LabReviews'A seminal paper authored in 1947 by Elizabeth C. Miller (1920-87) and James A. Miller (1915-2000) provided the first clue to an underlying common mechanism for the biological activities of chemical carcinogens. [...] Robert G. McKinnell has recently published an excellent biography of James and Elizabeth Miller, motivated in part by his desire `that the Millers should be recognized by the myriads of ordinary people whose lives have been impacted for the better.'' Norman Drinkwater, University of Wisconsin-Madison, in Medical History (61.1) January 2017 Author InformationRobert 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. Tab Content 6Author Website:Countries AvailableAll regions |
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