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When Blood Breaks Down - Life Lessons from Leukemia (Hardcover)
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When Blood Breaks Down - Life Lessons from Leukemia (Hardcover)
Series: The MIT Press
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A leading cancer specialist tells the compelling stories of three
adult leukemia patients and their treatments, the disease itself,
and the drugs developed to treat it. When you are told that you
have leukemia, your world stops. Your brain can't function. You are
asked to make decisions about treatment almost immediately, when
you are not in your right mind. And yet you pull yourself together
and start asking questions. Beside you is your doctor, whose job it
is to solve the awful puzzle of bone marrow gone wrong. The two of
you are in it together. In When Blood Breaks Down, Mikkael Sekeres,
a leading cancer specialist, takes readers on the journey that
patient and doctor travel together. Sekeres, who writes regularly
for the Well section of the New York Times, tells the compelling
stories of three people who receive diagnoses of adult leukemia
within hours of each other: Joan, a 48-year-old surgical nurse, a
caregiver who becomes a patient; David, a 68-year-old former
factory worker who bows to his family's wishes and pursues the most
aggressive treatment; and Sarah, a 36-year-old pregnant woman who
must decide whether to undergo chemotherapy and put her fetus at
risk. We join the intimacy of the conversations Sekeres has with
his patients, and watch as he teaches trainees. Along the way,
Sekeres also explores leukemia in its different forms and the
development of drugs to treat it-describing, among many other
fascinating details, the invention of the bone marrow transplant
(first performed experimentally on beagles) and a treatment that
targets the genetics of leukemia. The lessons to be learned from
leukemia, Sekeres shows, are not merely medical; they teach us
about courage and grace and defying the odds.
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