Contents Foreword Acknowledgments In the Beginning CHAPTER I How Cancer Became Known as a Genetic Disease Chimney Boys + Chaotic Chromosomes « Is Cancer Infectious? + Warburg’s War + The Secret of Life * A Question That Had Passed Him By « Everything Was in a Fog CHAPTER 2 Chemotherapy and the Gates of Hell Yin and Yang + MOPP « Total Therapy * “That Son of a Bitch” CHAPTER 3 Breakthroughs and Disappointments Into the Dustbin of History + A Flickering Ember * The PET Scan + A New Era « An Old Target Is New Again « The Good, the Bad, and the Ugly « “If I Hadn't Seen It with My Own Eyes, I Wouldn’t Have Believed It” CHAPTER 4 Dark Matter “Is It Possible to Make Sense Out of This Complexity?” « A Paradigm Shift « The Tortoise and the Hare CHAPTER 5 Watson Reconsiders 33 55 103 125CHAPTER 6 Mitochondria: An Old Theory Is New Again Things May Not Be as They Seem + Superfuel « Nemesis + The Most Important Game in Town + Gorgeous in Concept (More of the Same) « Press-Pulse CHAPTER 7 Where Do We Go from Here? Afterword APPENDIX A Putting Metabolic Therapies to Work APPENDIX B List of Practitioners References Index 133 179 187 205 221 223 241