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list price: $95.00
edition:eBook
category: Medical
published: May 2005
ISBN:9780773572706
publisher: McGill-Queen's University Press
imprint: MQUP

Element of Hope

Radium and the Response to Cancer in Canada, 1900-1940

by Charles Hayter

tagged: oncology
Description

Charles Hayter chronicles the work of Canadian provinces in establishing the cancer programs that remain the framework for modern systems. Focusing on the compromises these programs required, which anticipated later conflicts over Medicare, Hayter concludes by revealing the historical roots of current problems in cancer care.

About the Author
Charles Hayter is associate professor, Department of Radiation Oncology, University of Toronto, and a radiation oncologist at Toronto-Sunnybrook Regional Cancer Centre.

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