Cancer Crossings: A Brother, His Doctors, and the Quest for a Cure to Childhood Leukemia

Wendel, Tim

ISBN 10: 1501711032 / ISBN 13: 9781501711039

Verlag: ILR Press, 2018

Former library book; May have limited writing in cover pages. Pages are unmarked. ~ ThriftBooks: Read More, Spend Less. Bestandsnummer des Verkäufers G1501711032I4N10

Inhaltsangabe:

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.

Über die Autorin bzw. den Autor:

A writer-in-residence at Johns Hopkins University, Tim Wendel is the author of Summer of '68, Castro's Curveball, Cancer Crossings, and High Heat, which was an Editor's Choice selection by The New York Times Book Review. He lives outside of Washington, D.C.

Bibliografische Details

Titel: Cancer Crossings: A Brother, His Doctors, ...
Verlag: ILR Press
Erscheinungsdatum: 2018
Einband: Hardcover
Zustand: Very Good
Zustand des Schutzumschlags: No Jacket