Taming Cancer: 21st Century Biology and the Future of Cancer Medicine

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While curing cancer seems like a mythical quest, Taming Cancer injects some welcome optimism into the discussion of cancer medicine, now and in the future.  Dr. Kelner, a biochemist and immunologist with 37 years of experience in the biopharmaceutical industry developing innovative medicines for cancer, illuminates in layperson’s terms the discoveries in biology and medicine during the past two centuries that have culminated in the astonishing new immunotherapies and other precision-targeted medicines that are improving patient outcomes by shrinking (and sometimes eradicating) tumors and stimulating the power of human immunity to seek out and destroy cancer cells, culminating in a vision of a future (perhaps by mid-century) when a diagnosis of metastatic cancer is no longer by default a harbinger of impending suffering and death. Expertly written in accessible language for readers interested in developing a conceptual understanding of cancer and what can be done to confront it, the book also provides extensive scientific commentary in the endnotes for biology students, medical and graduate students, physicians, nurses, allied health care professionals, scientists, and anyone else interested in learning more about the fascinating and mysterious realm of the human cancer cell. This book is a fascinating and encouraging look at the science behind the most terrifying ailment of our age and a useful read for anyone who has been touched by it.