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Tripping over the Truth follows the story of cancer’s proposed metabolic origin from the vaunted halls of the German scientific golden age to modern laboratories around the world. The reader is taken on a journey through time and science that results in an unlikely connecting of the dots with profound therapeutic implications.
Tripping over the Truth follows the story of cancer’s proposed metabolic origin from the vaunted halls of the German scientific golden age to modern laboratories around the world. The reader is taken on a journey through time and science that results in an unlikely connecting of the dots with profound therapeutic implications.
Tripping over the Truth follows the story of cancer’s proposed metabolic origin from the vaunted halls of the German scientific golden age to modern laboratories around the world. The reader is taken on a journey through time and science that results in an unlikely connecting of the dots with profound therapeutic implications.
Contents
Foreword
Acknowledgments
In the Beginning
CHAPTER I
How Cancer Became Known as a Genetic Disease
Chimney Boys + Chaotic Chromosomes « Is Cancer Infectious?
+ Warburg’s War + The Secret of Life * A Question That
Had Passed Him By « Everything Was in a Fog
CHAPTER 2
Chemotherapy and the Gates of Hell
Yin and Yang + MOPP « Total Therapy *
“That Son of a Bitch”
CHAPTER 3
Breakthroughs and Disappointments
Into the Dustbin of History + A Flickering Ember * The
PET Scan + A New Era « An Old Target Is New Again «
The Good, the Bad, and the Ugly « “If I Hadn't Seen It
with My Own Eyes, I Wouldn’t Have Believed It”
CHAPTER 4
Dark Matter
“Is It Possible to Make Sense Out of This Complexity?” «
A Paradigm Shift « The Tortoise and the Hare
CHAPTER 5
Watson Reconsiders
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Mitochondria: An Old Theory Is New Again
Things May Not Be as They Seem + Superfuel « Nemesis
+ The Most Important Game in Town + Gorgeous in
Concept (More of the Same) « Press-Pulse
CHAPTER 7
Where Do We Go from Here?
Afterword
APPENDIX A
Putting Metabolic Therapies to Work
APPENDIX B
List of Practitioners
References
Index
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