The Cancer Chronicles: Unlocking Medicine's Deepest Mystery (original) (raw)

Care Management Journals, 2015

Abstract

THE CANCER CHRONICLES : UNLOCKIN G MEDICINE'S DEEPEST MYSTERY George Johnson New York: Alfred A. Knopf, Incorporated, 2013, 284 pp., $27.95 (paperback).My 72-year-old father recently became one of the rare patients to be diagnosed with "blastic plasmacytoid dendritic cell neoplasm" leukemia, an aggressive cancer that is difficult to treat. The doctors at the Nebraska Medical Center in Omaha, where he is being treated, make conference calls with other doctors and teams throughout the world to understand the successes and failures that they had with other patients. They aim to deliver the kind of chemotherapy that will put the cancer in remission so that my father may get a bone marrow transplant that could extend his life. In light of this personal experience, I appreciated the work of George Johnson in his book The Cancer Chronicles: Unlocking Medicine's Deepest Mystery. As most of us will be touched by someone diagnosed with cancer, if not have cancer ourselves, J...

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