In the 1950s, ninety-five percent of patients with Hodgkin's
disease, a cancer of lymph tissue which afflicts young adults,
died. Today most are cured, due mainly to the efforts of Dr. Henry
Kaplan. "Henry Kaplan and the Story of Hodgkin's Disease" explores
the life of this multifaceted, internationally known radiation
oncologist, called a "saint" by some, a "malignant son of a bitch"
by others. Kaplan's passion to cure cancer dominated his life and
helped him weather the controversy that marked each of his
innovations, but it extracted a high price, leaving casualties
along the way. Most never knew of his family struggles, his
ill-fated love affair with Stanford University, or the humanitarian
efforts that imperiled him.
Today, Kaplan ranks as one of the foremost physician-scientists in
the history of cancer medicine. In this book Charlotte Jacobs gives
us the first account of a remarkable man who changed the face of
cancer therapy and the history of a once fatal, now curable,
cancer. She presents a dual drama --the biography of this renowned
man who called cancer his "Moby Dick" and the history of Hodgkin's
disease, the malignancy he set out to annihilate. The book recounts
the history of Hodgkin's disease, first described in 1832: the key
figures, the serendipitous discoveries of radiation and
chemotherapy, the improving cure rates, the unanticipated
toxicities. The lives of individual patients, bold enough to
undergo experimental therapies, lend poignancy to the successes and
failures.
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