Oncology


The Emperor of All Maladies: A Biography of Cancer
The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks
Invisible Monsters
When Breath Becomes Air
The First Cell: And the Human Costs of Pursuing Cancer to the Last
The Death of Cancer: After Fifty Years on the Front Lines of Medicine, a Pioneering Oncologist Reveals Why the War on Cancer Is Winnable--and How We Can Get There
Malignant: How Bad Policy and Bad Evidence Harm People with Cancer
The Secret History of the War on Cancer
Psycho-Oncology
The Cancer Chemotherapy Handbook (6th Edition)
The Gene: An Intimate History
The Cancer Chronicles: Unlocking Medicine's Deepest Mystery
The Philadelphia Chromosome: A Mutant Gene and the Quest to Cure Cancer at the Genetic Level
Integrative Oncology (Weil Integrative Medicine Library)
Principles and Practice of Pediatric Oncology
Barbara Ehrenreich
As a recent editorial in the Journal of Clinical Oncology put it: "What we must first remember is that the immune system is designed to detect foreign invaders, and avoid out own cells. With few exceptions, the immune system does not appear to recognize cancers within an individual as foreign, because they are actually part of the self. ...more
Barbara Ehrenreich, Bright-Sided: How the Relentless Promotion of Positive Thinking Has Undermined America

Jerome Groopman
True hope has no room for delusion.
Jerome Groopman, The Anatomy of Hope: How People Prevail in the Face of Illness

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