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The first cell : and the human costs of pursuing cancer to the last / Azra Raza.

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Basic Books, 2019.

9781541699526 (hc.)

xii, 347 p. : ill. ; 24 cm.

Includes bibliographical references (pages 299-325) and index.

Prologue : cancer and its discontents -- Introduction : from last to first -- Omar : the nobleness of life is to do thus -- Per : sand piles and cancer -- Lady N : a loaded gun -- Kitty C : what wound did ever heal but by degrees? -- JC : one touch of nature makes the whole world kin -- Andrew : was honesty a choice? -- Harvey : death stared him in the face, and he stared right back -- Aftermath : give sorrow words -- Epilogue : the dawn has already arrived.

Azra Raza, the Chan Soon-Shiong Professor of Medicine and Director of the MDS Center at Columbia University delivers a devastating and deeply personal examination of cancer, offering a searing account of how both medicine and society (mis)treats cancer, how people can do better, and why they must.

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