Science and Cancer Author:Michael B. Shimkin, M.D. "Science and Cancer" is addressed primarily to the informed reader outside the scientific community. This book will be most useful to those who have had a school course in biology, for it assumes a familiarity, on the part of the reader, with the life processes in which neoplastic disease seems to be thoroughly involved. It describes the natur... more »e of cancer, its effect on the organism in which it resides, and the efforts of scientists and physicians to lean more about it and thus to deal with it more effectively. Although the entire field of cancer research is examined, "Science and Cancer" draws its focus mainly on the disease in man.« less