The first cell : and the human costs of pursuing cancer to the last
We have lost the war on cancer. We spend $150 billion each year treating it, yet-- a few innovations notwithstanding-- a patient with cancer is as likely to die of it as one was fifty years ago. Most new drugs add mere months to one's life at agonizing physical and financial cost. In The First Cell, Azra Raza offers a searing account of how both medicine and our society (mis)treats cancer, how we can do better, and why we must. A lyrical journey...