Cancerland: A Medical Memoir

AuthorDavid Scadden
Rating
Price896

An Amazon Best of the Month Book "For all the insight he offers into the hard science and thorny logistics of studying cancer, Dr. Scaddens most moving passages consider the effect of the disease on the people who suffer from it and those who care for them." ?The Wall Street Journal A doctors riveting story of loss and hope in the world of cancer. What is it like to encounter cancer? How does it feel to face the unknown, to enter a world of hope, loss, and dread? From the diagnosis of his childhood friends mother to his poignant memories in the lab, David Scaddens seen the unknown world of cancer from the lens of a young boy, a classmate, a researcher, a friend, a doctor, and a neighbor. Scadden chronicles his personal memories of cancer his visits to his sick neighbor and his classmate who left school and never came back. Now Dr. David Scadden, co-founder of the Harvard Stem Cell Institute and one of the worlds leading experts on immunology and oncology, writes his memoir, Cancerland, with Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist Michael DAntonio. With riveting stories and moving compassion, Scadden and DAntonio paint a still rapidly changing landscape in the context of all too common stories of loss. Ranging from Scaddens personal childhood memories to his triumphs and regrets as a doctor, Scadden illuminates a light at the end of a dark tunnel. Through opening a window into the science of medicine in the world of the unknown, Scadden and DAntonio humanize cancer while inspiring action that we all so desperately need.....

Publisher Pan Macmillan
Publication Date 02/02/2019
Number of Pages 332
Binding Paper Back
ISBN 9781250247193
Category Fiction , Non Fiction , Biographics , Memoirs

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