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The first cell : and the human costs of pursuing cancer to the last / Azra Raza.
A world-class oncologist's devastating and deeply personal examination of cancer We have lost the war on cancer. We spend 50 billion each year treating it, yet -- a few innovations notwithstanding -- a patient with cancer is as likely to die of it as one was fifty years ago. Most new drugs add mere months to one's life at agonizing physical and financial cost. The First Cell, Azra Raza offers a searing account of how both medicine and our society (mis)treats cancer, how we can do better, and why we must. A lyrical journey from hope to despair and back again, The First Cell explores cancer from every angle: medical, scientific, cultural, and personal. Indeed, Raza describes how she bore the terrible burden of being her own husband's oncologist as he succumbed to leukemia. Like When Breath Becomes Air, The First Cell, is no ordinary book of medicine, but a book of wisdom and grace by an author who has devoted her life to making the unbearable easier to bear.
Record details
- ISBN: 9781541699526
- ISBN: 1541699521
- Physical Description: xii, 347 pages : portraits ; 25 cm
- Publisher: New York : Basic Books, 2019.
- Copyright: ©2019.
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| Bibliography, etc. Note: | Includes bibliographical references and index. |
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| Subject: | Raza, Azra. Cancer > Treatment > Popular works. Cancer > Prevention > Popular works. Oncologists > United States > Biography. |
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