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Cancer Crossings - A Brother, His Doctors, and the Quest for a Cure to Childhood Leukemia (Hardcover)
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Cancer Crossings - A Brother, His Doctors, and the Quest for a Cure to Childhood Leukemia (Hardcover)
Series: The Culture and Politics of Health Care Work
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List price R647
Loot Price R535
Discovery Miles 5 350
You Save R112 (17%)
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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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