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

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

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Availability:In StockContributor:Tim Wendel, Martin Brecher (Foreword by)Series:Culture and Politics of Health Care WorkAudience:Young AdultPublish date:2018-04-15Pages:256
Language:EnglishPublisher:ILR PressISBN-13:9781501711039ISBN-10:1501711032UPC:9781501711039Book Category:Biography & Autobiography, Health & Fitness, MedicalBook Subcategory:Personal Memoirs, Diseases & Conditions, OncologyBook Topic:CancerSize:8.68 x 8.18 x 0.90 inchesWeight:0.9017Product ID:SCFMP1K1P3

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

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...

Series: Culture and Politics of Health Care Work
Audience: Young Adult
Language:EnglishPublisher:ILR PressISBN-13:9781501711039ISBN-10:1501711032UPC:9781501711039Book Category:Biography & Autobiography, Health & Fitness, MedicalBook Subcategory:Personal Memoirs, Diseases & Conditions, OncologyBook Topic:CancerSize:8.68 x 8.18 x 0.90 inchesWeight:0.9017Product ID:SCFMP1K1P3

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.


Publisher: ILR Press

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