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A Test of Survival
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  • gpawelski
    gpawelski Member Posts: 564
    edited December 2007

    Title/Name A Test of Survival
    Author(s) Marnie Schulenburg
    ISBN ISBN# 0-595-36311-3

    About the Book:

    A simple lab test that could customize chemotherapy to the patient and save lives. When science takes a back seat: public posturing, private bargains, and scandal, set in the cancer industry.

    http://www.marniesfiction.com/about-book.html


    The medical-political backdrop and wrangling over technology. Literary realism (clinical trials, informed consent)

    http://www.marniesfiction.com/science-behind.html


    Reader Comments

    http://www.marniesfiction.com/reviews.html


    Publisher Info:
    Publisher iUniverse: Book Publishing Company
    Copyright date 2005

    Privately, as a student of Cell Function Analysis, I can say the "science" in this book is very real.

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  • gpawelski
    gpawelski Member Posts: 564
    edited December 2007

    If you ever get a chance to watch a 1940 movie, starring Edward G Robinson, called "Dr. Ehrlich's Magic Bullet," watch it. Ehrlich is one of the very first pioneers of chemotherapy. Ehrlich was the discoverer of the first effective treatment for syphillis. The movie is a very accurate foreshadowing of chemotherapy of cancer, one century later. Ehrlich's treatment was very toxic, but it worked, sometimes miraculously. This work inspired Alexander Fleming, who later discovered penicillin, which was a true magic bullet (Ehrlich's bullet was a wondrous bullet, but it wasn't magic).

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