Curing Cancer: The Story of the Men and Women Unlocking the Secrets of Our Deadliest Illness »

Michael Waldholz is a staff reporter at The Wall Street Journal. He is the coauthor, with Jerry Bishop, of Genome, a book based on their prizewinning Wall Street Journal series on the hunt for genes. Waldholz lives in Montclair, New Jersey.

An award-winning science writer tells the story of the people hunting for the genetic key to cancer -- and of the dramatic recent breakthroughs that offer hope for an eventual cure.

Journal of the American Medical Association

This book should be enjoyable reading for both physician and lay person alike.

Contents

Preface

1: A Mystery Solved

2: Science Fiction

3: "Welcome to Chromosome 17"

4: Family 15

5: Trick or Treat

6: The Game

7: Cancer Families

8: Gold Mine

9: Guardian of the Genome

10: Ishmael's Tale

11: Clone by Phone

12: The Mother of All Tumor Suppressors

13: The Roller Coaster

14: Ras

15: First, Do No Harm

Epilogue

Acknowledgments

Notes

Bibliography

Index

Illustration Credits