In 1950, a diagnosis of cancer was all but a death sentence. Mortality rates only got worse, and as late as 1986, an article in the New England Journal of Medicine lamented: "We are losing the war against cancer." Cancer is one of humankind's oldest and most persistent enemies; it has been called the existential disease.

But we are now entering a new, and more positive, phase in this long campaign. While cancer has not been cured--and a cure may elude us for a long time yet--there has been a revolution in our understanding of its nature. Years of brilliant science have revealed how...

Quite simply a little booklet of 50 lists of 50 things, to do or not to do, to say or not to say, to think or not to think, etc., etc., ....