![]() Like When Breath Becomes Air, The First Cell is no ordinary book of medicine, but a book of wisdom and grace by an author who has devoted her life to making the unbearable easier to bear. Author Professor Azra Raza from Columbia University in conversation with Dr Aasim Yusuf, Chief Executive Officer, Shaukat Khanum Hospital. ThinkFest 2021: Book Launch: The First Cell. Indeed, Raza describes how she bore the terrible burden of being her own husband's oncologist as he succumbed to leukemia. The First Cell Videos Research News and Views Events Blog. A lyrical journey from hope to despair and back again, The First Cell explores cancer from every angle: medical, scientific, cultural, and personal. In The First Cell, Azra Raza offers a searing account of how both medicine and our society (mis)treats cancer, how we can do better, and why we must. Download The First 3 Chapters of Evolution 2. Most new drugs add mere months to one's life at agonizing physical and financial cost. Be sure and watch my previous interview with Azra Raza at it’s a barn burner and provides important background that gives rich context to this new discussion. ![]() ![]() We spend $150 billion each year treating it, yet - a few innovations notwithstanding - a patient with cancer is as likely to die of it as one was fifty years ago. Log in Create account × SummaryĪ world-class oncologist's devastating and deeply personal examination of cancer We have lost the war on cancer. ![]() ![]() In order to save audiobooks to your Wish List you must be signed in to your account. ![]()
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