Cancer Crossings: A Brother, His Doctors, and the Quest for a Cure to Childhood Leukemia

by Tim Wendel

Book Overview

When Eric Wendel was diagnosed with acute lymphoblastic leukemia in 1966, the survival rate was 10 percent. Today, it is 90 percent. Even as politicians call for a "Cancer Moonshot," this accomplishment remains a pinnacle in cancer research.

The author's daughter, then a medical student at Georgetown Medical School, told her father about this amazing success story. Tim Wendel soon discovered that many of the doctors at the forefront...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1501711032
• ISBN13: 9781501711039
• Release Date: April 2018
• Publisher: ILR Press
• Length: 256 Pages
• Weight: 0.95 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.9" x 8.2" x 8.7"
• Age Range: 18 years and up
• Grade Range: Postsecondary and higher