Peace on Cancer: An ecological paradigm for a better understanding and treatment of cancer

Dr. Bachmann received his M.D. from the J. Gutenberg University in Mainz, Germany, and his doctorate in virology from Harvard School of Public Health in Boston. He is currently working as a research scientist at Stanford University on the molecular genetics of tumor immune escape and transplant tolerance.

Chances are that you and your loved ones have been touched by cancer during the last five decades that the "War on Cancer" has been going on for. Still, mortality rates have changed only insignificantly for the majority of cancer types while incidence rates for a number of cancers have continued to grow. In fact, cancer is, and has been for a long time, the second most common cause of death in the developed world after cardiovascular disease. One in two men and one in three women born after 1985 will suffer cancer in their lifetime, from which one in six will die.