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Drugs Against Cancer: Stories of Discovery and the Quest for a Cure by Dr. Kurt Kohn

The Developmental Therapeutics Branch of the NCI is happy to announce the online publication of the first public version of a new book entitled "Drugs Against Cancer: Stories of Discovery and the Quest for a Cure" by Dr. Kurt Kohn, an NIH Scientist Emeritus. The aim of the book is to explain how the knowledge and application of cancer chemotherapy drugs developed. This book is an account of the earliest published work leading to the anti-cancer drug discovery and to explain how the knowledge and application of cancer chemotherapy drugs developed.

Dr. Kohn devoted nearly 60 years of his life to anti-cancer drug research at the National Cancer Institute. In the book, he wrote "I felt a responsibility to make a record of the part of the cancer drug development effort with which I was associated, going back nearly 60 years, and to relate it to the global anti-cancer drug discovery and development efforts." It is in large part a historical account, a combination of science, history, medicine, and memoir.

Chapters can be downloaded individually and new chapters are continuously added. Book chapters are available at: https://discover.nci.nih.gov/kohn-book-drugs-against-cancer.jsp

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