Patient Number One: A True Story of How One Ceo Took on Cancer and Big Business in the Fight of His Life - Hardcover

Murdock, Rick; Fisher, David

 
9780609603918: Patient Number One: A True Story of How One Ceo Took on Cancer and Big Business in the Fight of His Life
Hardcover
ISBN 10: 0609603914 ISBN 13: 9780609603918
Verlag: Crown Pub, 2000

Inhaltsangabe

A corporate CEO recalls his fight against both a deadly form of cancer and a patent dispute that prevented his own company from saving his life

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Über die Autorin bzw. den Autor

Rick Murdock earned a degree in zoology from the University of California at Berkeley. In 1991 he joined CellPro as vice president of marketing and business development. He is now CEO of Kyphon, Inc., a medical device company in the San Francisco Bay Area, where he lives with his wife.

David Fisher is the author of more than forty books. His best-sellers include Gracie and All My Best Friends with George Burns, The Umpire Strikes Back with Ron Luciano, and Conversations with My Cat. He lives in New York and Atlanta with his wife.

Aus dem Klappentext

tims of cancer have thought, "If only I could order up a cure"?

Rick Murdock could.

In an extraordinary book that proves that truth can be stranger than fiction, Rick Murdock tells the dramatic story of his fight against a deadly lymphoma that could only be treated with technology developed by his own biotech company, and the equally harrowing battle for the survival of his company in a bruising legal dispute with a multibillion-dollar medical products giant.

Rick Murdock was forty-four years old when he was named CEO of CellPro, a thriving biotech company in Seattle that was reaping the benefits of the biotech boom in the late 1980s and early '90s. Wall Street money fueled the flame of cutting-edge research at start-up companies like CellPro, where dedicated scientists were researching treatments that showed great promise in the fight against cancer and other diseases. But then Rick found a lump in his neck, evidence of the acute mantle cell lymphoma r

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Verlag
Crown Pub
Erscheinungsdatum
2000
Sprache
Englisch
ISBN 10 
0609603914
ISBN 13 
9780609603918
Einband
Tapa dura
Auflage
1
Anzahl der Seiten
308
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