Book ID: CBB001423089

The Understanding, Prevention and Control of Human Cancer: The Historic Work and Lives of Elizabeth Cavert Miller and James A. Miller (2016)

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The Understanding, Prevention and Control of Human Cancer is an account of how a married couple opened understanding of environmental carcinogenesis. Elizabeth Cavert and James A. Miller showed that enzymes of the human body activate and enable otherwise benign organic chemicals to combine with DNA in such a manner that cancer results. Their work is of particular note because cancer causes more loss of life-years than the sum of all other causes of death—and, as the President’s (USA) Cancer Panel warned, environmental carcinogenesis is a form of cancer that has been previously “grossly underestimated”. The Millers’ cancer research led to tests that identify dangerous chemicals which in turn permits prevention and thus the control of human cancer.

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Review Yonina R. Murciano-Goroff (2017) Review of "The Understanding, Prevention and Control of Human Cancer: The Historic Work and Lives of Elizabeth Cavert Miller and James A. Miller". Isis: International Review Devoted to the History of Science and Its Cultural Influences (pp. 487-488). unapi

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Authors & Contributors
Barker, Crispin Robert Claude
Bartrip, Peter
Cantor, David
Close-Koenig, Tricia
Eraso, Yolanda
Gallo, Daniela
Journals
História, Ciências, Saúde---Manguinhos
History and Philosophy of the Life Sciences
Bulletin of the History of Medicine
Dynamis: Acta Hispanica ad Medicinae Scientiarumque Historiam Illustrandam
Historical Research: The Bulletin of the Institute of Historical Research
IEEE Technology and Society Magazine
Publishers
University of Chicago Press
Harvard University
Yale University
Office for Official Publications of the European Communities
Stanford General Books
Concepts
Medicine
Cancer; tumors
Disease and diseases
Therapeutic practice; therapy; treatment
Health care
DNA; RNA
People
Cohnheim, Julius Friedrich
Kaplan, Henry
Temin, Howard M.
Virchow, Rudolf Carl
Time Periods
20th century
21st century
19th century
18th century
Places
United States
Great Britain
Argentina
Brazil
Mexico
China
Institutions
Atomic Bomb Casualty Commission
U.S. Atomic Energy Commission
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