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Cancer Crossings: A Brother, His Doctors, and the Quest for a Cure to Childhood Leukemia (The Culture and Politics of Health Care Work) - Hardcover

Buch 40 von 52: The Culture and Politics of Health Care Work

Wendel, Tim

 
9781501711039: Cancer Crossings: A Brother, His Doctors, and the Quest for a Cure to Childhood Leukemia (The Culture and Politics of Health Care Work)
Hardcover
ISBN 10: 1501711032 ISBN 13: 9781501711039
Verlag: ILR PR, 2018

Inhaltsangabe

When Eric Wendel was diagnosed with acute lymphoblastic leukemia in 1966, the survival rate was 10 percent. Today, it is 90 percent. Even as politicians call for a "Cancer Moonshot," this accomplishment remains a pinnacle in cancer research.

The author’s daughter, then a medical student at Georgetown Medical School, told her father about this amazing success story. Tim Wendel soon discovered that many of the doctors at the forefront of this effort cared for his brother at Roswell Park in Buffalo, New York. Wendel went in search of this extraordinary group, interviewing Lucius Sinks, James Holland, Donald Pinkel, and others in the field. If there were a Mount Rushmore for cancer research, they would be on it.

Despite being ostracized by their medical peers, these doctors developed modern-day chemotherapy practices and invented the blood centrifuge machine, helping thousands of children live longer lives. Part family memoir and part medical narrative, Cancer Crossings explores how the Wendel family found the courage to move ahead with their lives. They learned to sail on Lake Ontario, cruising across miles of open water together, even as the campaign against cancer changed their lives forever.

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A writer-in-residence at Johns Hopkins University, Tim Wendel is the author of Summer of '68, Castro's Curveball, Cancer Crossings, and High Heat, which was an Editor's Choice selection by The New York Times Book Review. He lives outside of Washington, D.C.

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Verlag
ILR PR
Erscheinungsdatum
2018
Sprache
Englisch
ISBN 10 
1501711032
ISBN 13 
9781501711039
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Gebundene Ausgabe
Auflage
1
Anzahl der Seiten
256
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