Adam Barsouk, MD, is a resident-physician at the University of Pennsylvania.
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Contents Introduction 1. Why Us? Cancer Epidemiology and Prevention 2. What Goes Around: Viruses, Bacteria, and Other Microbes 3. You Are What You Eat: Foods and Toxins 4. The Gift of Living Well: Diet, Exercise and Obesity 5. On and Off the Clock: Occupational Exposures, Pollution, and Plastic 6. Infinite Reproduction: Sex and Cancer 7. Virtue and Vice: Smoking, Vaping, Alcohol, and Other Drugs 8. All the Rays We Cannot See: UV Light and Radiation 9. In Their Genes: Hereditary Cancer Risk 10. Burning Questions: Inflammation, the Microbiome, and Cancer 11. To Prevent the Recurrence of Misery: Cancer Relapse and Screening 12. Some Are More Equal: Disparities in Cancer and Health Care Reform 13. Art of Living and Dying Well: Palliative and End-of-Life Care Conclusion Acknowledgments Notes Bibliography Index