DeVita, Hellman, and Rosenberg's Cancer: Principles & Practice of Oncology

by Vincent T. DeVita Jr., Steven A. Rosenberg, Theodore S. Lawrence

Selected as a Doody's Core Title for 2022!

First Prize Oncology winner of the prestigious British Medical Association (BMA) Medical Book Award

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Genres: Science

2432 pages, Hardcover

First published May 16, 2011

About the author

An internationally recognized pioneer physician in the field of oncology.

DeVita earned his Bachelor of Science degree from the College of William and Mary in 1957. He was awarded his MD degree with distinction from the George Washington University School of Medicine in 1961.
DeVita spent the early part of his career at the National Cancer Institute (NCI). In 1980, the president of the United States appointed him as director of the NCI and the National Cancer Program, a position he held until 1988. While at the NCI, he was instrumental in developing combination chemotherapy programs that ultimately led to an effective regimen of curative chemotherapy for Hodgkin's disease and diffuse large cell lymphomas. Along with colleagues at the NCI, he developed the four-drug combination, known by the acronym MOPP, which increased the cure rate for patients with advanced Hodgkin's disease from nearly zero to over 70%.

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[Husain Ismaeel · Rating 5 out of 5]

The most perfect resource for the cancer or Oncology.