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Title: Dr. Folkmanªs War: Angiogenesis and the Struggle to Defeat Cancer by Robert Cooke, C. Everett, Dr. Koop ISBN: 0-7567-5695-2 Publisher: Diane Pub Co Pub. Date: 01 May, 2003 Format: Hardcover List Price(USD): $26.00 |
Average Customer Rating: 4.78 (23 reviews)
Rating: 5
Summary: This is phenomenal!
Comment: For a class assignment, I had to write a book review of a biography of a scientist. Being a cancer survivor, and particularly in touch with the issue as a good friend of mine died from a relapse this summer, I was interested in cancer research. When I chose Dr. Folkman's War, I'm not sure what I was expecting, but it was definitely better than what I had planned. As I began reading the book, I found I could not put it down! The lack of perfect chronology at times confused me for a minute or two, but it's not hard to pick up on. Anyone who has had their life touched - directly or indirectly - by cancer should definitely read this book. It takes you through a basic history of cancer research, and, having been written this year, ends with very current and pertinent information for anyone interested in the current direction of cancer treatment. For people struggling with a terminal illness, it is quite heartening to realize that there is a person out there who is working so hard to make you feel better. My favorite part of the book is at the end where Dr. Folkman tells some of his young proteges and interns to never ever tell a patient that nothing can be done. It may be small, but you can hold a patient's hand, and look out the hospital window with them, point to the research building and say, "Do you see that building over there? That's the research building. We're working on it."
Rating: 5
Summary: The Man Who May Cure Cancer
Comment: This is the extraordinary story of an extraordinary man. Dr. Judah Folkman's approach to fighting cancer, long the subject of derision from the medical and research establishment, is finally bearing fruit. Robert Cooke writes beautifully and clearly, combining a scientific biography of Dr. Folkman with an introduction to anti-angiogenesis. Read this book- when Judah Folkman wins the Nobel Prize, you'll know all about him. (A sidebar- a Amazon customer reviewer, who pans the book, is under the impression that it is written by Dr. C. Everett Koop. It is not. He does however, write the introduction, which ends with these words, "In the end, of course, Judah Folkman's beautiful idea has triumphed over the doubters. A few still persist, but their time will come.")
Rating: 5
Summary: Dr. Folkman is my hero -- a story better than SeaBiscuit!
Comment: This book by Robert Cooke is incredible! Mr. Cooke is able to explain to the average layperson the medical concepts of angeiogeneis conceived by the most under-valued person of our time: Dr. Judah Folkman. Dr. Folkman is to cancer what Salk was to Polio! Personally, Dr. Judah Folkman is my hero! A real hero, deserving of the Nobel Prize....and I don't speak lightly. I am a cancer patient that has recently learned that my cancer (thought was beat) has advanced to my lungs. The ONLY therapy for me is in an ANGIOGENESIS drug therapy program for a drug currently in study and labeled as "PI-88." I am just so confident this drug will work. I am the only patient with my type of cancer cell (adenoid cystic carninoma), so I am a little bit more of a lab rat for this program.
God Bless Dr. Folkman and h is incredible perserverance! His story should be a movie----a tale better than SeaBiscuit! He is my SeaBiscuit!
LHH
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Title:Nova - Cancer Warrior ASIN: B00005NSY4 Publisher: Wgbh Boston Video Pub. Date: 02 October, 2001 List Price(USD): $19.95 Comparison N/A, buy it from Amazon for $17.96 |
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Title: One Renegade Cell (Science Masters) by Robert A. Weinberg ISBN: 0465072763 Publisher: Basic Books Pub. Date: 01 October, 1999 List Price(USD): $14.50 |
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Title: CURING CANCER: The Story of the Men and Women Unlocking the Secrets of our Deadliest Illness by Michael Waldholz ISBN: 0684848023 Publisher: Simon & Schuster Pub. Date: 01 March, 1999 List Price(USD): $20.95 |
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Title: The Doctors' Plague: Germs, Childbed Fever, and the Strange Story of Ignac Semmelweis (Great Discoveries) by Sherwin B. Nuland ISBN: 0393052990 Publisher: W.W. Norton & Company Pub. Date: October, 2003 List Price(USD): $21.95 |
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Title: The Double Helix: A Personal Account of the Discovery of the Structure of DNA by James D. Watson ISBN: 074321630X Publisher: Touchstone Books Pub. Date: 12 June, 2001 List Price(USD): $14.00 |
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