A Simple Cure engages the reader in the search for the cure of
malignant melanoma. While an uncommon skin cancer, one American
dies of melanoma almost every hour (every 61 minutes). The
incidence rate has tripled in the last twenty years. When nature,
in her ultimate act of irony, strikes Richard Powell, a cancer
specialist, with malignant melanoma, a highly aggressive form of
cancer, his wife, Terri devotes her life to curing the disease that
ultimately kills her husband. While research laboratories are
characterized as noble in search of cures, and proprietary drug
companies are caricatured as ruthless and materialistic, too often,
the distinctions aren't so clear. The murder of a drug courier to
obtain an experimental and promising treatment for malignant
melanoma, unleashes a chain of devastating consequences. People for
Alternative Treatment, a company created to find cures for rare
diseases, had fallen on hard times and become a subsidiary of
Kendall Pharmaceuticals, a company with very different values.
Experimentation with a vaccine against tuberculosis is showing
surprising effects in controlling malignant melanoma at PAT and UC
Medical Center. Kendall is enthralled with the economic potential
of such a treatment, while researchers are leery and have many
unanswered questions. Kendall's determination to push the vaccine
into clinical trial at all costs is in conflict with Terri and her
ethical associates. When clinical trials begin, the vaccine's
effects are miraculous. Soon, however, once again, we see the rule
of unintended consequences.
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