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The Cancer Treatment Revolution: How Smart Drugs and Other New Therapies are Renewing Our Hope and Changing the Face of Medicine
Praise for The Cancer Treatment Revolution ""A wonderful journey through modern medical science, told with warmth and insight, brought to life through the stories of people confronting cancer. This book will inspire and educate both laymen and caregivers.""
—Jerome Groopman, M.D., author of The Measure of Our Days and The Anatomy of Hope and Recanati , Professor, Harvard Medical School ""This is probably the best book on cancer that exists--beautifully written and unfailingly interesting, conveying a clear sense of hope for cancer patients and survivors. Cancer treatment has come a long way but not without intense struggles and passions, which David Nathan narrates from the inside as one of the leading players. He explains cancer more clearly than anyone else, and his portraits of great cancer doctors are sharp and unforgettable, a contribution to history.""
—Richard Preston, author of The Hot Zone and The Demon in the Freezer ""No one is better positioned to tell the tale of the cancer treatment revolution of the last half century than David Nathan. A brilliant physician-scientist, he has been present at the cusps of history in this life-and-death field. The story he tells here is fascinating, and his book is captivating.""
—Atul Gawande, M.D., author of A Surgeon's Notes on an Imperfect Science and A Surgeon's Notes on Performance and Assistant Professor of Surgery, Harvard Medical School ""David Nathan is a true storyteller. In The Cancer Treatment Revolution , he tells stories that bridge cancer patients and cancer research as few others could. These gripping tales will be appreciated by those who live with cancer and those who strive to create new therapies.""
—Thomas Cech, Ph.D., recipient of the 1989 Nobel Prize in Chemistry and President of the Howard Hughes Medical Institute ""David Nathan, one of the nation's preeminent clinician-scientists, tells the stories of three cancer patients, revealing compelling human facets--the dedication of the remarkable teams that care for these patients and, even more, the bravery and fortitude of the patients and their families.""
—Harold Varmus, M.D., recipient of the 1989 Nobel Prize in Medicine, President of the Memorial Sloan-Kettering Cancer Center, and former director of the National Institutes of Health ""Engaged by the compelling triumphs and tragedies of patients whose normal lives are inevitably altered by a life-threatening cancer, the reader of The Cancer Treatment Revolution will easily appreciate the impact of the new cancer diagnostics and therapies compared to even relatively recent cancer treatments.""
—Karen Antman, M.D., Dean, Boston University School of Medicine ""This personal, highly readable account by one of the leaders of the cancer treatment revolution explains how the revolution has come about and how it will change the future.""
—Sir Paul Nurse, Ph.D., President of Rockefeller University and recipient of the 2001 Nobel Prize in Medicine
—Jerome Groopman, M.D., author of The Measure of Our Days and The Anatomy of Hope and Recanati , Professor, Harvard Medical School ""This is probably the best book on cancer that exists--beautifully written and unfailingly interesting, conveying a clear sense of hope for cancer patients and survivors. Cancer treatment has come a long way but not without intense struggles and passions, which David Nathan narrates from the inside as one of the leading players. He explains cancer more clearly than anyone else, and his portraits of great cancer doctors are sharp and unforgettable, a contribution to history.""
—Richard Preston, author of The Hot Zone and The Demon in the Freezer ""No one is better positioned to tell the tale of the cancer treatment revolution of the last half century than David Nathan. A brilliant physician-scientist, he has been present at the cusps of history in this life-and-death field. The story he tells here is fascinating, and his book is captivating.""
—Atul Gawande, M.D., author of A Surgeon's Notes on an Imperfect Science and A Surgeon's Notes on Performance and Assistant Professor of Surgery, Harvard Medical School ""David Nathan is a true storyteller. In The Cancer Treatment Revolution , he tells stories that bridge cancer patients and cancer research as few others could. These gripping tales will be appreciated by those who live with cancer and those who strive to create new therapies.""
—Thomas Cech, Ph.D., recipient of the 1989 Nobel Prize in Chemistry and President of the Howard Hughes Medical Institute ""David Nathan, one of the nation's preeminent clinician-scientists, tells the stories of three cancer patients, revealing compelling human facets--the dedication of the remarkable teams that care for these patients and, even more, the bravery and fortitude of the patients and their families.""
—Harold Varmus, M.D., recipient of the 1989 Nobel Prize in Medicine, President of the Memorial Sloan-Kettering Cancer Center, and former director of the National Institutes of Health ""Engaged by the compelling triumphs and tragedies of patients whose normal lives are inevitably altered by a life-threatening cancer, the reader of The Cancer Treatment Revolution will easily appreciate the impact of the new cancer diagnostics and therapies compared to even relatively recent cancer treatments.""
—Karen Antman, M.D., Dean, Boston University School of Medicine ""This personal, highly readable account by one of the leaders of the cancer treatment revolution explains how the revolution has come about and how it will change the future.""
—Sir Paul Nurse, Ph.D., President of Rockefeller University and recipient of the 2001 Nobel Prize in Medicine
272 pages, Hardcover
First published March 30, 2007
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October 28, 2016
Yet this book has been ovelaped by other posterior books as the Sddhartas or Johnsons has the value that i think is one of the first about smart drugs and targeted treatment.
Nathan former director of Dana Farber Institute uses in this book three examples of patients each one with one of the main branches of the cancer disease: leukemia,carcinoma and sarcoma.
In each case he foccuses i the best treatment an weapons fitted in arround 2000 year (i think the book is not relevantly dated as no major advances has been made) that in general are :prevention,screeing,surgery,radiotherapy,clasic chemotherapy (carpet bombing as he says ) and smart targeted drugs,targeted to protein kinases derived from mutant genes and involved in biochemical signals and pathways that or forced the cell to perpetual grow and divission or avoid programed death of the cell with damaged DNA.
As usually he underlines the problem of resistance to classic and smart drugs by that is of necessity to find new geerations of smsrt drugs and try to make of cancer a cronic disease.
As examples of smart drugs he makes a brief description ,uses and histhory os some smart drugs as Herceptin,Gleevec or Tarceva.
Finally he makes mention of the posibility of cancers related to the protin generated changes in the epigenome,epigenomic cancers,and the promisig field of using the immune system in controlin cancer.
A valuable,interesting,with some new data not avaliable in other books ,book on the subject
Nathan former director of Dana Farber Institute uses in this book three examples of patients each one with one of the main branches of the cancer disease: leukemia,carcinoma and sarcoma.
In each case he foccuses i the best treatment an weapons fitted in arround 2000 year (i think the book is not relevantly dated as no major advances has been made) that in general are :prevention,screeing,surgery,radiotherapy,clasic chemotherapy (carpet bombing as he says ) and smart targeted drugs,targeted to protein kinases derived from mutant genes and involved in biochemical signals and pathways that or forced the cell to perpetual grow and divission or avoid programed death of the cell with damaged DNA.
As usually he underlines the problem of resistance to classic and smart drugs by that is of necessity to find new geerations of smsrt drugs and try to make of cancer a cronic disease.
As examples of smart drugs he makes a brief description ,uses and histhory os some smart drugs as Herceptin,Gleevec or Tarceva.
Finally he makes mention of the posibility of cancers related to the protin generated changes in the epigenome,epigenomic cancers,and the promisig field of using the immune system in controlin cancer.
A valuable,interesting,with some new data not avaliable in other books ,book on the subject
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