Volume 24, Number 10 · June 9, 1977
The Crab
By P.B. Medawar
The Unseen Fight Against Cancer
by Thelma Brumfield Dunn MD.
Batt Bates and Company (916 Preston Avenue, Charlottesville, Va. 22901), 204 pp., $8.50 (paper)
The Cancer Connection: And What We Can Do About It
by Larry Agran
Houghton Mifflin, 220 pp., $8.95
X-Rays: More Harm Than Good
by Priscilla Laws
Rodale Press, 258 pp., $8.95
You Can Fight For Your Life: Emotional Factors in the Causation of Cancer
by Lawrence LeShan
M. Evans, 192 pp., $7.95
You Can Fight Cancer and Win
by Jane E. Brody, by Arthur I. Holleb MD.
Quadrangle/New York Times Book Company, 338 pp., $12.50
Although cancer is much more often curable than its popular reputation leads one to expect, the number of its victims and the sometimes morbid dread (oncophobia) of being among them make cancer a source of human distress that is reason enough for the fear it arouses.
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